Viktor Frankl

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

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, to choose one's own way.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails gives him ample opportunity to add a deeper meaning to his life.

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

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