Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

I find inspiration in each and every person that I cross paths with. Every human being I interact with offers me a significant insight on some aspect of life.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.

My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.