There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
- Topic: Life, Time
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Viktor Frankl
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
More on These Topics
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
