Man's Search for Meaning

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

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

“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.”

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. 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 lif... See more

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

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

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; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Ha... See more