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

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

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.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.