“It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.”

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’

The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

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

Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals.

When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.

I don’t discuss my family with the press; I discuss my family with my family. If you notice, when you hear something sensational in the press about me.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.

Everything I do, it’s all about making every moment a quality, meaningful moment.