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

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

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

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!