Viktor Frankl

"A person who has found meaning in life is a person who has found joy."

"Life is what we make of our circumstances."

"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose how we respond to life."

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

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

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

"Happiness ensues from having found a meaning in one's life."

"The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."

"When you have a why for life, you can get by with almost any how."

"The task ahead of us is never as great as the power within us."

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

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

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms."

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

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

"Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."

"For the love of life remains the first commandment."

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

"There are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the 'race' of the decent man and the 'race' of the indecent man."

"Even the richest and most protected of us are not insured against suffering."

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

"What is to give light must endure burning."

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

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

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

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

"The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is."