Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

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.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

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 search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.