“The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.”

“When we work creatively and productively with others, our experience of meaning can be profound. When we work directly for the good of others, meaning deepens in ways that reward us beyond measure. Whenever we go beyond satisfying our own personal needs, we enter the realm of what Frankl called "ultimate meaning." some call it connection to a higher self, to God, to our own spirit, to universal consciousness, to love, to the collective good. No matter what it's called, it is deep meaning and it transforms our lives.”

“Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.”

“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.”

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that 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.”

“It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.”

“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.”

“The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.”

“Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is the only personal development book that does not mention it.”

“They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.”

“Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.”