Viktor E. Frankl(빅토르 프랭클)

 

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.' 

 

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.

 

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

 

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

 

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

 

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

 

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

 

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

 

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. - Viktor E. Frankl
 

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

(우리가 더 이상 상황을 바꿀 수 없을 때, 우리는 우리 자신을 바꾸도록 도전 받는 것이다.)