The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

...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.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.