Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.

I have had a couple of situations where I wasn't the strongest person in the world.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life, they just don't have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I'm lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself. Now I love me, so I'm OK.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.