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More Quotes by Viktor Frankl
The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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 the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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.
What is to give light must endure burning.
