Viktor Frankl

"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 has meaning under any circumstances, even the most miserable ones."

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

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

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

"Freedom is not the last of man's privileges; it is his last responsibility."

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

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

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

"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue."

"What is to give light must endure burning."

"An active life serves the purpose of giving man a chance to find the meaning of his own life."

"The will to meaning is the primary force in human life."

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

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

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked."

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

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

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

"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 own attitude."

"I never would have made it if I had not had faith."

"The right to pursue happiness is not the same as the right to be happy."

"Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude."

"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue."

"Man can endure almost any suffering if he can find meaning in it."

"The concentration camp is a searching test of the human soul."

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