Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning Quotes
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".
No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.
He who knows the 'Why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'How'.
The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.
Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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.