Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.

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

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.