Quotes from Viktor Frankl

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life Therein he cannot be re­placed, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyones task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

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.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

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.

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

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.