This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
You don't create your mission in life—you detect it.
- Topic: Purpose
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Viktor Frankl
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.
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.
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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?
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No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
