Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to others tirelessly, lovingly, effectively.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

My beautiful, selfless sister Manuela Testolini-Benet continues to inspire me to be a better woman. Always thinking of others, always doing God's work.

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

The key lesson for me: Don't make this life about you. It's about other people.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

We love most those who we serve most.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Love is sacrifice.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.