To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

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.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.