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

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

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.

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.

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

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.

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

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.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible.

Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.

What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.