The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.