50 phrases by Viktor Frankl to understand the meaning of life

When we can no longer change the situation, we challenge ourselves to change ourselves.

Death can only frighten those who do not know how to fill the time given to live.

Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, tension between what has already been achieved and what is yet to be achieved, or the gap between what one is and what one should be.

In the past nothing is irrevocably lost, but everything is irrevocably guarded.

If there was a day in life when freedom seemed like a beautiful dream, there will also come a day when all the experience suffered in the past will seem like a mere nightmare.

Everything can be taken away from man except an attitude of choosing his own path.

God is the partner in our most intimate conversations with ourselves.

The world is in a bad shape. And everything will get worse if each of us doesn’t do the best we can.

Precisely for this reason, the biggest challenge is that we join the minority.

Decent people form a minority. More than that, they will always be a minority.

Those who have a “why” to live can cope with almost no “how”.

Loving is the only way to capture another human being in the depths of his personality.

Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

If you don’t know what your mission in life is, you already have one: find it.

If it is not in your hands to change a situation that causes you pain, you can always choose the attitude with which you face this suffering.

I am not the fruit of the past, I am the fruit of an assumed change lived with intensity.

There is no reason to be ashamed of tears, they were made to witness the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

We must transform the negative aspects of life into something constructive.

No one has the right to practice injustice, not even one who has suffered injustice.

The will to humor – the attempt to see things in a funny perspective – is a useful trick for the art of living.

The courage of confession elevates the value of testimony.

The best way to achieve personal fulfillment is to dedicate ourselves to disinterested goals.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

When the situation cannot be transformed, transform yourself.

The best of human potential is to turn a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn someone’s situation into a human achievement.

By his love, a person becomes able to see the characteristic traits and essential features of his beloved. Through his love, the lover enables the loved one to realize these potentialities. By making her aware of what she can be and what she should become, the one who loves makes these potentialities come true.

The human being is a being that makes decisions.

Contesting the meaning of life is the true expression of the meaning of being human.

No one can be fully aware of the ultimate essence of another human being without loving him.

I found the meaning of my life by helping others find meaning in their lives.

More and more people have the means to live, but they don’t have a reason to live.

Every man is asked about life and he can only answer about his own life. The only one he is responsible for her.

Human existence is always transcendent, for this reason man is always heading towards something or someone besides himself.

The meaning of life is to give meaning to life.

In a way, suffering ceases to be suffering the moment it finds a meaning, like the meaning of a sacrifice.

Live as if you were living for the second time and as if you had done as wrong the first time as what you are doing now!

I do not forget any good deed done to me, and I do not hold a grudge for a bad deed.

Whether he is really present or not, whether he is still alive or not, somehow ceases to matter.

No man should judge unless he honestly wonders if in the same situation he would not have done the same.

Love is the last and greatest goal that a man can desire.

Man’s salvation is by love and with love.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I respond to your actions.

It doesn’t matter what we expect from life, but what life expects from us.

We need to stop asking what the meaning of life is and start asking ourselves about the people who are questioned by it, every day and every hour.

Our answers should not consist of conversations or meditations, but of good deeds and conduct.

Life is about finding the right answer to your problems and fulfilling the tasks set for each individual.

Happiness cannot be pursued; must happen.

If there is any meaning in life, then there is meaning in suffering.

Love goes beyond physical contact with the loved one. It finds its deepest meaning spiritually, within each one.

Not only from my work and my loves, but from the sufferings bravely faced.