Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

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

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

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.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.