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

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.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.

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

It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.