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.
Viktor E. FranklMan is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
Viktor E. FranklThe struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
Viktor E. FranklThis 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.
Viktor E. Frankl...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneselfโbe it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himselfโby giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to loveโthe more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
Viktor E. Frankl