Quotes from Viktor E. Frankl

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

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