Quotes from Victor Frankl

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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.

What is to give light must endure burning.

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

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'