Daily Inspiration Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

Frankl flips the most common modern question - "What’s the point of my life?" - into something closer to a moral summons. The sentence works because it refuses the consumer mindset of meaning, where life is a product you evaluate for satisfaction. Instead, life becomes the interrogator. You are not the customer; you’re the witness on the stand.

That reversal carries the psychological intent of logotherapy in miniature. Frankl is pushing attention outward, away from obsessive self-auditing and toward responsibility: to a person, a task, a value, a moment. The subtext is quietly impatient with navel-gazing. Meaning isn’t a riddle to solve in private; it’s a demand that arrives through circumstances you didn’t author. The line also avoids the sugary promise that you can simply "find yourself". You’re "asked" because you’re obligated - and because your answer is behavioral, not merely philosophical.

Context sharpens the edge. Frankl’s credibility isn’t academic posturing; it was forged in the concentration camps, where the question of meaning could not be a lifestyle accessory. In a world designed to strip agency, his framework insists that even when control is annihilated, some form of choice remains: how you respond, what you hold to, whom you refuse to betray. "It is he who is asked" turns existence into an ethical interview, and it implies time is limited. Life won’t wait for your perfect theory. It wants your reply now, in action.