Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

- Viktor E. Frankl

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

- Viktor E. Frankl

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

- Viktor E. Frankl

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.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

- Viktor E. Frankl

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.

- Viktor E. Frankl

I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

- Viktor E. Frankl