Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

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.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

The meaning of life is life.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

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.

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.