“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

What is to give light must endure burning.

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

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.