Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

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.

Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.