Victor Frankl

"No one can take away the freedom to choose one's own attitude."

"Meaning makes a major difference in how people cope with pain in their lives."

"The will to pleasure is a secondary drive, the will to power is a secondary drive, but the will to meaning is the primary drive."

"Self-actualization cannot be the ultimate concern of man. It must rather be the byproduct of self-transcendence."

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

"Despair is suffering without meaning."

"Creativity, like human freedom, is endangered by totalitarianism."

"Only to the extent that someone is living out this answer is he 'being himself'."

"When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept suffering as his task."

"The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me."

"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself."

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

"Love is the highest goal to which man can aspire."

"Choosing to find meaning even in suffering makes all the difference."

"Human kindness can still survive in those who have nothing but their integrity."

"The last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance."

"Man can bear almost any kind of suffering if a meaning can be found for it."

"The greatest task is to accept oneself as one is."

"Meaning is unconditional in character, whereas pleasure is not."

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."

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

"There is nothing in the world that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life."

"The meaning of one's life is always determined by one's being responsible."

"A life of constant gratitude is a happy life."

"The ability to choose one's attitude is the last human freedom."

"Meaning is something to be found, not to be given."

"The demand to give meaning to one's existence is inescapable."

"A man who loses his hope loses his will to live."

"To the one who understands the meaning of life, suffering is purposeful."

"Nothing is more important than having a why to live."