Viktor Frankl

"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"

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

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

"The last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitude"

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us"

"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure or a quest for power, it is a quest for meaning"

"Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life"

"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who loves him, or toward any human being whose fate depends upon him, and whose expectations are waiting for him to fulfill them"

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under the most constrained circumstances, decide what his life is to have been."

"The will to meaning can be frustrated, resulting in existential frustration."

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

"No one can take away my freedom to choose my attitude."

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

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

"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue from the pursuit of meaning."

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

"Our main motivation is to find meaning in life."

"Live as if you were living already for the second time."

"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."

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

"Everything that happened to me happened to all of us."