Victor Frankl

"Being responsible for someone or something transforms one's entire existence."

"Logotherapy is based on three pillars: the freedom of will, the will to meaning, and the meaning of life."

"When internal freedom is lost, all other freedoms become irrelevant."

"One's past, though irreversible, need not dominate one's future."

"Psychoanalysis tries to resolve the past; logotherapy looks forward to the future."

"The capacity to find meaning in suffering is our deepest strength."

"Tragic triad: pain, guilt, and death—all can be sources of meaning."

"In our desire for happiness, we must never forget that the greatest sources of happiness are intangible."

"The pursuit of success distracts us from the pursuit of meaning."

"My will is not free if it cannot choose the good, but it is still free if it can choose the good."

"The more one chases happiness, the more it eludes us."

"An attitude is a choice, and it is always within our power to choose."

"The last vestige of freedom cannot be taken; it can only be surrendered."

"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, but a quest for meaning, the deepest of human yearnings."

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

"The last of the human freedoms is 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."

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

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

"A man who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

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

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

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather a striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal."

"Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness."

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

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

"Happiness ensues from meaning and purpose."

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

"The way your life unfolds depends on meaning you assign to it."

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life."