If there is 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.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

A human being is a deciding being.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

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.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.