Viktor Frankl

"The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has experienced, he has still retained his faith in life."

"Prisoners who lost faith in the future were doomed."

"The meaning we give to our lives is what sustains us through hardship."

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

"We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when faced with a hopeless situation."

"The will to power and the will to pleasure are secondary to the will to meaning."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"Meaning can be found through creative work, through nature, and through our attitude toward unavoidable suffering."

"When a person cannot find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure."

"Success cannot be pursued; it must ensue from meaningful goals."

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

"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility."

"When we cannot change our external circumstances, we are given the opportunity to change ourselves."

"The meaning of life is found in every moment of living."

"Even the briefest moment in the concentration camp could give one's life a new meaning."

"A person who knows the 'why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'how.'"

"Life is not fair, but meaning can be found even in unfair circumstances."

"We are responsible for our lives, whether we admit it or not."

"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude in the face of adversity."

"Suffering is only meaningful when we choose to make it so."

"The search for meaning is more fundamental than the pursuit of pleasure or power."

"Our attitude is the one thing we can always control."

"Finding meaning in suffering transforms the nature of the suffering itself."

"Every person has the capacity to find meaning, regardless of circumstance."

"The future is not determined; it is created by the meaning we assign to our present."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but the ability to choose our response to them."

"We are not here to question the meaning of life, but to realize we are questioned by life."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence itself is an act of rebellion."

"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."