Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl

Change, Able, Situation

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.
Viktor E. Frankl

Power, Freedom, Between

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl

Attitude, Human, Everything

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.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Cannot, Everyone

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Person, Moment

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Goals, Surely

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Viktor E. Frankl

Attitude, Human, Last

What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor E. Frankl

Give, Light, Endure

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl

Time, Live, Living

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Today, Live, Means

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Viktor E. Frankl

Liberty, West, Coast

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.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Answer, Respond

A human being is a deciding being.
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Human, Deciding

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Rather, Meaning

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Human, State

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E. Frankl

Fear, True, May

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 26, 1905

Died: September 2, 1997

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