Frasi di Viktor Emil Frankl

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6 frasi trasformative sullo scopo e la resilienza nella vita

“Come potrebbe essere bello il mondo!”

“Il potenziale umano al suo meglio è trasformare una tragedia in un trionfo personale, per trasformare la propria situazione in un risultato umano.”

“La distinzione di Maslow tra bisogni più alti e bisogni più bassi non ci dà la spiegazione del fatto che, quando quelli più bassi non vengano soddisfatti, un bisogno più alto, quale la volontà di significato, può diventare il più urgente di tutti. Poiché, dunque, sia il soddisfacimento come la frustrazione dei bisogni più bassi può provocare nell’uomo la ricerca di un significato, ne consegue che il bisogno di significato è indipendente da altri bisogni. Da ciò si deduce che esso non può essere ridotto a essi né ricavato da essi.”

“Il mondo è in cattive condizioni, ma tutto diventerà ancora peggiore se ognuno di noi non farà del suo meglio.”

“Ciò che dà luce deve sopportare il bruciore.”

“The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.”

“Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.”

“Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”

“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”

“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.”

“The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.”

“Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.”

“The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.”

“At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.”

“In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.”

“The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.”

“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.”

“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. 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.”

“That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

“You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints."”

“But we cannot “give” meaning to the life of others. And if this is true of meaning per se, how much does it hold for Ultimate Meaning?”

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

“If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”

“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”

“I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”

“Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.”

“For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

“Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.”

“There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose”

“A life of short duration… could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”

“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”