Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn't turn out the way you intended it to. My whole philosophy has always been that there is no way to change anything else in the world if you don't have the capacity to change yourself.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.