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Viktor E. Frankl
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„That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.“
„Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.“
„The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.“
„In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.“
„As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.“
„At such a moment, 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.“
„Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.“
„There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.“
„The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.“
„Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.“
„It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.“
„So 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!“
„If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.“
„Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.“
„Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.“
„I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.“
„For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.“
„What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.“
„There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose“
„When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.“
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