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

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prer….

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ….

Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued….

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

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

What is to give light must endure burning..

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom..

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..

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

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 m….

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed.….

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

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

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing.

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 ta….

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….

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs..

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

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal..

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is..