Frases de Viktor Frankl

“O significado da vida é dar significado à vida.”

“A única coisa que você não pode tirar de mim é a maneira que escolho responder ao que você faz comigo. A última das nossas liberdades é escolher nossa atitude em qualquer circunstância que nos é dada.”

“Tudo pode ser tirado a um homem, menos uma coisa: a última liberdade humana - escolher a sua atitude em qualquer conjunto de circunstâncias, escolher o seu próprio caminho.”

“De certa forma, o sofrimento deixa de ser sofrimento no momento em que encontra um significado, como o significado de um sacrifício.”

“Uma reação anormal a uma situação anormal é um comportamento normal.”

“Viva como se você estivesse vivendo a vida uma segunda vez, e que na primeira vez você agiu errado.”

“Contestar o sentido da vida é a mais verdadeira expressão do estado do ser humano.”

“O Homem não deve perguntar qual o sentido da sua vida, mas ele deve perceber que é a vida é que o pergunta.”

“Em última análise, torna-se claro que o tipo de pessoa em que o prisioneiro se transformava era o resultado de uma decisão interior, e não o resultado só das influências do campo de concentração. Portanto, fundamentalmente, qualquer ser humano, mesmo sob tais circunstâncias, pode decidir o que vai ser dele - mentalmente e espiritualmente.”

“Cada vez mais, as pessoas tem os meios para viver, mas não tem uma razão pela qual viver.”

“O ser humano é um ser que faz decisões.”

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.”

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

“We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents… Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.”

“Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.”

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

“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.”

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”

“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.”

“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life.”

“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.”

“Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”

“The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.”

“The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

“It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning.”

“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.”

“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”

“It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.”

“What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.”

“It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.”