Quotes by
Victor Frankl |
1905-1997 , Austrian neurologist
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and a Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy a meaning-centered school of psychotherapy, considered the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy.He is the author of over 39 books and he is most noted for his best-selling book Man's Search for Meaning based on his experience in various Nazi concentration camps.
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Quotations
| • | To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering. 12 |
| • | Live as if you were living for the second time and as if you had made a lot of mistakes the first time. 9 |
| • | Until now we were afraid; from now on we will hope. (to his wife when he was arrested by the Nazis) 2 |
| • | Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. |
| • | Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. |
| • | When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. |
| • | An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. |
| • | In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. |
| • | What is to give light must endure burning. |
| • | 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. |
| • | I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. |
| • | To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic. |
| • | The meaning of life is to give life meaning. |
| • | When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasures. |
| • | The more one forgets himself —by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love— the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. |
| • | We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life, but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events. |
| • | In the Nazi concentration camps the most able to survive were the prisoners who had a job to do after their release. |
