Victor Frankl

"Our attitude toward life is what determines our quality of life."

"Freedom without responsibility is chaos; responsibility without freedom is tyranny."

"The meaning you find in life will sustain you through darkness."

"We discover our purpose not by introspection but by engagement with the world."

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

"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."

"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose one's own attitude."

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

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

"Man's search for meaning is the primary human motivation."

"Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

"When facing tragedy, we cannot always control what happens to us, but we can control what we become."

"The will to meaning can be frustrated, which leads to existential frustration and despair."

"Freedom is not the absence of conditions, but rather the opportunity to take a stand towards those conditions."

"An active life serves the purpose of giving man a chance to realize values in creative work."

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

"The happiness that follows purpose is more sustaining than happiness pursued for its own sake."

"Our main motivation is not to avoid pain but to find meaning."

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

"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed; it is a quest for meaning."

"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue as a consequence of one's personal dedication to a cause."

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

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

"Despair is suffering without meaning."

"It is the small daily decisions that shape our destiny."

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

"The pursuit of happiness is not the pursuit of success; it is the pursuit of meaning."

"Even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may still choose his attitude towards that fate."

"When you have a why, you can endure almost any how."