Quotes from Viktor E. Frankl
You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
- Viktor E. Frankl
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
- Viktor E. Frankl
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
- Viktor E. Frankl
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
- Viktor E. Frankl
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
- Viktor E. Frankl