Victor Frankl

"Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be."

"Only a few knew that the decision to live or die in those terrible circumstances depended on faith in the future."

"The greatest freedom is the freedom of attitude."

"In reality, a man who could calmly torture another man must become convinced of the worthlessness of his victim."

"The task, then, is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"Logotherapy relies on the assumption that man's main motivation is his search for a meaning in life."

"As the experiences of camp life show, man does not have immunity against spiritual failure."

"No institution can relieve man of his moral responsibility."

"Dostoevski said that beauty will save the world. I am convinced that it is meaning that will save it."

"The striving to find a meaning in one's life is the primary human motivation."

"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another man's beliefs. But it does mean that I acknowledge another man's right to his own beliefs."

"Every person has his own specific vocation or mission in life."

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

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

"The experience of one's own death is not something that can be corrected or undone by the living."

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

"To the person who has a meaning in life, the ridiculous tragedies of everyday life do not come into question."

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

"The only thing that matters is whether one has fulfilled one's specific responsibility."

"A free man's worship is a worship by grace and is spontaneous."

"The man in the street does not know about the great movements of our time."

"When a man has found meaning, he is ready to face almost any challenge."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the condition of every hero."

"The true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man."

"Resentment is the 'thank you' that conscience gives to those who help it to survive."

"The freedom of will constitutes the basic fact of human existence."

"Words like loneliness, freedom, and privacy were not a part of my vocabulary."

"Instead of asking what the meaning of my life is, you must recognize that you are being questioned."

"It is the very nature of man to reach out for meaning beyond himself."

"Even if one's suffering is not caused by one's own guilt, man can still find a meaning in it."