Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Your mission in life is to have a "why" to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world in which you would like to live. That is your purpose. This is what life expects of you. And when you live according to your purpose, setting goals that support it, you may find the pieces of your life drawn together into a strong internal whole. Then, no matter how difficult life's experiences may prove to be, you can be able to endure and even prevail.

What is to give light must endure burning.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.