Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

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.

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.