Best Quotes from Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl with Page Numbers

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.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.

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

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life.

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

The worst of prisoners' experiences is that they lose faith in the future.

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.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives.

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.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.

The true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche.

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

Freedom is the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

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.