Quotes by Viktor Frankl

“The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose ones attitude in a given set of circumstances.”

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.”

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

“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.”

“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way”

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”

“A human being is a deciding being.”

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

“Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his selfs actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.”

“Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.”

The last of the human freedoms: to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose ones own way.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose ones own way.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.