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.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

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

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

What is to give light must endure burning.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

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.

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.