Viktor E. Frankl

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

“The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.”

“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”

“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

“It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.”

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life... therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”