Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

To the stars through thorns.

I wouldn't go so far to say that destiny preserves me. I managed to survive and to succeed.

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.