Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.