Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

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

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.