Quotes from Viktor E. Frankl

Suffering ceases to be suffering when it finds meaning

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness, unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all. Strangely

Niego tajantemente que la búsqueda de un sentido, o la duda de si existe ese sentido, proceda o sea el resultado de una enfermedad. La frustración existencial en sí misma no es patológica ni patogénica.

To explain everything as the result of a single factor which, moreover, is fixed by fate, has a great advantage. For then no task seems to be assigned to one; one has nothing to do but wait for the imaginary moment when the curing of this one factor will cure everything else.

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 his life away.

Love is living the experience of another person in all his uniqueness and singularity.

but what never can be ruled out is the unavoidability of suffering. In accepting this challenge to suffer bravely, life has a meaning up to the last moment, and it retains this

A human being is not one thing among others - Things determine each other, but Man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes, within the limits of endowment and environment, he has made out of himself.

Kami benci kalau harus bercerita tentang pengalaman kami. Tidak ada penjelasan yang perlu diberikan untuk mereka yang pernah menjalaninya, dan mereka yang tidak langsung merasakannya tidak akan pernah memahami bagaimana perasaan kami saat itu dan perasaan kami sekarang.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way.

Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

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

En la angustia clamé al Señor y Él me contestó desde el espacio en libertad».

El hombre que se dejaba vencer por la ausencia de futuro ocupaba su mente con pensamientos retrospectivos. Ya me he referido a la tendencia a refugiarse en el pasado para apaciguar el horror del presente haciéndolo menos real. Pero

Las palabras de Nietzsche «quien tiene un porqué para vivir puede soportar casi cualquier cómo» podrían ser la motivación de todos los esfuerzos

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber.

Seorang manusia yang menyadari tanggung jawabnya terhadap manusia lain yang menunggunya dengan kasih sayang, atau tanggung jawabnya terhadap pekerjaan yang belum selesai, tidak akan pernah bisa mengabaikan hidupnya. Dia tahu "mengapa" ia hidup, dan akan mampu menghadapi "bagaimana" dalam bentuk apa pun.

A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and still more intensely.

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more—except his God.

it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

vivir significa asumir la responsabilidad de encontrar la respuesta correcta a las cuestiones que la vida plantea, cumpliendo la obligación que nos asigna.

Strangely enough, a blow which does not even find its mark can, under certain circumstances, hurt more than one that finds its mark.