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Viktor E. Frankl
Austrian
Psychologist
About the author
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Life
#Being
#State
#Expression
#Meaning
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Life
#Day
#Man
#Meaning
What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Light
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Life
#Man
#Meaning
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Ability
#Circumstances
#Attitude
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Time
#First
#Living
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Life
#Goals
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Liberty
#Responsibility
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Fear
#May
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman 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,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Man
#Woman
#Circumstances
#Attitude
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Life
#Opportunity
#Vocation
#Mission
#Fulfillment
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Life
#Being
#Man
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Change
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,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Freedom
#Power
#Growth
#Lies
#Space
A human being is a deciding being.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#Being
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Viktor E. Frankl,
Austrian
Psychologist
#People
#Today
#Meaning