Frankl Quotes

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“The evolutionary argument for altruism could draw from [Victor] Frankl to argue that we need meaning and purpose in order to survive, and need them so profoundly we sometimes choose them over survival.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

“Tension, striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal are positive; trying to close the gap between what one is and what one should become.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“U čoveku se kriju obe mogućnosti: svinja i svetac. Šta će neko ostvariti zavisi od njegovih odluka, a ne od uslova."
Viktor Frankl: "Zašto se niste ubili”
― Viktor Frankl

“Не, благодаря – мисли той, – наместо възможности аз имам реални неща в моето минало, не само реалността на свършената работа и на изживяната любов, но и на храбро понесените страдания. Дори тези страдания са онова, с което се гордея най-много, макар и да не могат да възбудят завист.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“It is apparent that the mere knowledge that a man was either a camp guard or a prisoner tells us almost nothing. Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn. The boundaries between groups overlapped, and we must not try to simplify matters by saying that these men were angels and those were devils.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“I particularly liked this quote from Frankl's book: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone