Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

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.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

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.

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 one's own way.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

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. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

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.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'