Man's Search for Meaning ~ Viktor E. Frankl

... a life-changing book. endlessly inspiring.

• "'He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how'" ~ Nietzsche
  
• "The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life."
  
• "Three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times."
• "Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by how we respond to it."
  
• "man's inner strength may raise him above his outer fate"
• "Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you."
• "we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond"

~Harold S. Kushner

• "life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones."
  
• "an abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."
• "love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire."
• "The salvation of man is through love and in love."
• "The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living."
• "No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same."
• "everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
• "Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it." ~ Spinoza
• "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 answers to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
• "What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you."
• "no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them."
• "but everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find" ~ Spinoza
  

~ Viktor E. Frankl