"At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or 'dynamisms' of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"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." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him." (Viktor E Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning", 1946)
"It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future." (Viktor Frankl, "From Death-camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy", 1959)
"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for." (Viktor E Frankl, "The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism", 1978)
"There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life." (Viktor E Frankl)
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