Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

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

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

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