Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

I think, as people, we deal with struggles.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

The struggle I went through has value.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.