viktor frankl quotes

Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown



Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall



Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle. ~Author Unknown



I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved? ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Jerome Lawrence



We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ~Gilbert Adair, "Under the Sign of Cancer," Myths and Memories, 1986



As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci



Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy. ~Author Unknown Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel



A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~Duke Ellington



The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it. ~Jose Iturbi



If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ~Dawn French



Washington's appointments, when president, were made with a view to gather all the talent of the country in support of the national government; and he bore many things which were personally disagreeable in an endeavor to do this. ~Paul Leicester Ford



Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. ~Sarah Vowell



Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel



A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~Keith L. Brooks



All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour



What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. ~Barbara Jordan



The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here. ~Steve Forbes