Viktor Frankl

"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a 'Statue of Responsibility' on the west coast."

"Only to the extent that someone fulfills a meaning does he also realize himself."

"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose one's attitude toward any circumstance."

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

"Man's concern should not be the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning in his life at any given moment."

"When internal motivation is lacking, even external achievements feel hollow."

"The consciousness of one's inner freedom—which cannot be lost—becomes the basis for inner security and peace."

"Despair is suffering without meaning, but suffering can lose its despair when it has meaning."

"By declaring that man's search for meaning is the primary motivation, we are also declaring responsibility to be man's most human characteristic."

"Even in a concentration camp, one's last inner freedom cannot be taken away."

"The capacity to choose one's attitude is what makes us truly human."

"Happiness is not something that can be pursued; it must ensue from having found meaning."

"Meaning can be discovered in three ways: by what we give to life, by what we take from the world, and by the stance we take toward unavoidable suffering."

"When a person loses a sense of purpose, he loses everything."

"The spiritual freedom cannot be taken away; it is always possible to preserve the core of one's self."

"Meaning is something each person must define for themselves."

"Our freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude, and this freedom is the basis of all human dignity."

"The will to pleasure and the will to power are far less meaningful than the will to meaning."

"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"

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

"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Adler believed, but a quest for meaning"

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

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

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

"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself"

"The prisoners who lost faith in the future—in their return—were usually the ones who died"

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

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread"

"Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment"