"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."
Viktor Frankl"There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli."
Quotes to Explore
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
Viktor Frankl"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how."
Viktor Frankl"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it."
Viktor Frankl"But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer."
Viktor Frankl"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."
Viktor Frankl"What is to give light must endure burning."
Viktor Frankl"If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering."
Viktor Frankl"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue."
Viktor Frankl"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."
Viktor Frankl"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."
Viktor Frankl"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked."
Viktor Frankl"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice."
Viktor Frankl"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!"
Viktor Frankl