Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

People are bigger than anything that can happen to them.

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'