The best 50 Phrases of VIKTOR FRANKL – To reflect!

Decisions, not conditions, determine who we are.

The meaning of my life is helping others find meaning in theirs.

Trying to develop a sense of humor and see things with humor is a kind of trick learned while mastering the art of living.

You don’t create your mission in life, you detect it.

Death can only cause fear to those who do not know how to fill the time they are given to live.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny that it exists.

Love is the only way to capture another human being in the deepest core of your personality.

Love is the only way to apprehend another human being in the depths of their personality.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

You can turn experience into victories, life into an internal triumph.

Luck is what one does not have to suffer.

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

Life is not primarily a search for pleasure, as Freud believed, nor a search for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a search for meaning. The best task for any person is to find meaning in their own life.

Life demands a contribution from every individual and it is up to the individual to discover what it is.

When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

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

The person who knows the “why” of his existence will be able to endure almost any “how.”

When we are no longer capable of changing a situation, we face the challenge of changing ourselves.

Being tolerant does not mean that you share someone else’s belief.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as if you had done wrong the first time.

The most painful aspect of the beatings is the insult they include.

Humor is another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Ruins are often what open the windows to see the sky.

It is not the past that stops us, it is the future; and how we weaken it, today.

Whatever a person becomes – within the limits of their faculties and their environment – they have to do for themselves.

Freedom is nothing more than the negative aspect of any phenomenon, whose positive aspect is responsibility.

When a person cannot find a deep sense of meaning, he becomes distracted by pleasure.

Once hopeless, my life is now full of hope, but it didn’t happen overnight.

Anyone who stayed alive had room for hope.

The last of the human freedoms, deciding one’s attitude in any set of circumstances, is to choose one’s own path.

Those who know the close relationship between a person’s state of mind – his courage and his hopes, or the lack of both – and his body’s ability to remain immune, also know that if he suddenly loses hope and value, this can cause death.

Man’s inner strength can elevate him above his outer destiny.

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing we must recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now full of hope, but it didn’t happen overnight.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

We must never forget that we can also find the meaning of life even when we are faced with a desperate situation, when we are faced with a destiny that cannot be changed.

Faith that cannot be shaken is faith that has been shaken

The more you forget about yourself, giving yourself to a cause to serve or another person to love, the more human you become and the more you actualize yourself.

They died less from lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, from lack of something to live for.

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

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Happiness is like a butterfly.

Love is as primary a phenomenon as sex can be. Normally sex is a way of expressing love.

Man self-realizes to the same extent that he commits to fulfilling the meaning of his life.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any moment.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Happiness is not an inn on the road, but a way of walking through life.

Decisions, not conditions, determine who we are.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as if you had done wrong the first time.

I never would have made it if I hadn’t been able to laugh.

Human goodness can be found in all groups, even those that as a whole would be easy to condemn.

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

I understood how man, deprived of everything in this world, can still know happiness – even if only momentarily – if he contemplates his loved one.

Love transcends the physical person of the loved one and finds its deepest meaning in their own spirit, in their intimate self.