Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

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

I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.

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.