It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

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Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

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

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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

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This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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What is to give light must endure burning.

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