The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

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

[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.

The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.