Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

I want to love life.

I don't feel there's any kind of pain in my life.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

The most radical thing that I can do is share how happy I am.

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Only the soul that loves is happy

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.