I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.