Viktor Frankl Quotes

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. - Viktor Frankl quote.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
— Viktor Frankl Jesus and Logotherapy

goals

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. - Viktor Frankl quote.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
— Viktor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning

aspiration striving struggle

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl quote.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
— Viktor Frankl

interesting reaction

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. - Viktor Frankl quote.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
— Viktor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning

freedom hopeful positive adversity attitude choice

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life.  Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.  Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated.  Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it. - Viktor Frankl quote.
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life.  Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.  Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated.  Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.
— Viktor Frankl Man’s Search For Meaning

individuality vocation

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal.
— Viktor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning

goals

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life.  Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.