Viktor Frankl

Frases de Viktor Frankl

• “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.”

• “He who has a 'why' to live for can bear almost any 'how'.”

• “The meaning of life is not something we ask, but rather something we respond to, for it is we who are being questioned by life.”

• “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

• “Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of their personality.”

• “Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. It only happens as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”

• “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.”

• “Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.”

• “A man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss in the contemplation of his beloved.”

• “To live means to assume the responsibility of finding the correct answer to problems and to fulfill the tasks which life constantly sets for each individual.”

• “Man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is a spiritual distress but by no means a mental disease.”

• “No one can become aware of their own singularity and the uniqueness of their existence without the possibility of being responsible for it.”

• “Humor is another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.”

• “To be human means to be conscious and to be responsible.”

• “The more one forgets himself — by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love — the more human he is.”