Liputan6.com, Jakarta Viktor Frankl was a famous psychiatrist and writer who shared deep lessons about life. He survived very hard times and used his experiences to inspire people around the world.
Through his words, Frankl showed how suffering can be turned into strength and how finding meaning helps us stay strong. His quotes continue to guide many who face challenges in life.
In this article, we will look at 35 Viktor Frankl quotes about life, suffering, and resilience that can bring wisdom and hope to anyone who reads them.
Viktor Frankl Quotes about Life, Sufferings, and Resilience
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- “Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.”
- “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”
- “Despair is suffering without meaning.”
- “The meaning of life is to give life meaning."
- “Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
- “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
- “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.”
- “Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
- “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”
- “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 Frankl Quotes about Life, Sufferings, and Resilience (Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash)
- “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… 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.”
- “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
- “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”
- “Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.”
- “The meaning of life differs from man to man, and from moment to moment.”
- “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”
- “Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
- “To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.”
- “There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”
- “Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”
Viktor Frankl Quotes about Life, Sufferings, and Resilience (Photo by George Shervashidze: https://www.pexels.com/photo/smiling-woman-holding-dandelion-flower-403448/)
- “Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.”
- “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather, the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
- “When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.”
- “Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.”
- “We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.”
- “Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”
- “No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny.”
- “The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.”
- “The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing.”
- “We should not, then, be hesitant about challenging man with a potential meaning for him to fulfill.”
- “Man is originally characterized by his search for meaning rather than his search for himself.”
- “In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.”
- “View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.”
- “Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.”
- “Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.”
Author:
Larasati Natasha (intern)