Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.