13 Life-Altering Quotes from Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl

1. “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 E. Frankl


2.  “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


3.  “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


4.  “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


5.  “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


6.  “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


7.  “No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


8.  “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


9.  “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”
― Viktor E. Frankl



10.  “Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


11.  “The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


12. “We do not ask life what the meaning of life is. Life asks us, what is the meaning of your life. And life demands our answer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl


13.  “Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.”
― Viktor E. Frankl