Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

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.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.