Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…”

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

“Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.”

“Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”

“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.”

“Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue… as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.”

“The last of human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

“Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth… That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplanted by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“A man's unique opportunity in life lies in the way in which he bears his burden.”

“View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?”