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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl
Change, Positive, Inspiring

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
Viktor E. Frankl
Goal, Higher Goals, Strive

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In
our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl
Happiness, Peace, Freedom

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

Viktor E. Frankl
Attitude, Men, Ultimate Freedom

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to
choose how you will respond to the situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
Force, Situation, Mans Search For Meaning

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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. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own
life.
Viktor E. Frankl
Quests, Taught, Tasks

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed
to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being
questioned by lifedaily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right
action and in right conduct. 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.
Viktor E. Frankl
Life, Mean, Responsibility

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl
Life, Time, Firsts

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

Viktor E. Frankl
Men, Decision, Determine

When a person cant find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Viktor E. Frankl
Pleasure, Persons

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.
Viktor E. Frankl
Past, Today

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race
of the indecent man.
Viktor E. Frankl
Men, Two, Race

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS
FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
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Viktor E. Frankl
Situation, Humans, Despite

As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is
subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in
two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness
to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions
conceivable.
Viktor E. Frankl
Men, Two, Survivor

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.
Viktor E. Frankl
Strong, Famous Inspirational, Fire

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined
by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel
unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!
Viktor E. Frankl
Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being until he loves him. By his
love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he
sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving
person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he
can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.
Viktor E. Frankl
Love, Essence, Essentials

A human being is a deciding being.

Viktor E. Frankl
Inspirational, Choices, Thrive

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.
Viktor E. Frankl
Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning
to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering, Spirit, Kind
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Viktor E. Frankl
Normal, Behavior, Reactions

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he
might not have done the same.
Viktor E. Frankl
Honesty, Humility, Men

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

Viktor E. Frankl
Suffering, Meaning Of Life, Mans Search For Meaning

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were
ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture
halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
Viktor E. Frankl
Berlin, Lectures, Ministry

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately selfdetermining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out
of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing
ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved
like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions
but not on conditions.
Viktor E. Frankl
Men, Self, Decision

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Viktor E. Frankl

Born: March 26, 1905

Died: September 2, 1997
Occupation: M.D.
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