Victor Frankl

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

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

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."

"Those who have a 'why' to live can bear with almost any 'how'."

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

"The greatest freedom is to choose your own attitude."

"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."

"Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life."

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."

"When life itself becomes the question, love is the answer."

"The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour."

"Freedom is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story."

"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who loves him, or toward any human being whose expectations he knows, will never be able to throw away his life."

"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue."

"Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it."

"The will to meaning is the primary human motivation."

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

"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

"Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude."

"We cannot change our external circumstances, but we can always change ourselves."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"An active life serves the purpose of giving man a chance to find meaning in his work."

"The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is."

"Happiness ensues from meaning."

"Being human always points, and is directed, toward something or someone other than oneself."

"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering."

"It is the attitude toward one's life that determines one's attitude toward death."

"What matters is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."

"The prisoner who has lost faith in the future is doomed."

"Man can endure almost any hardship if he finds meaning in it."