Man's Search for Meaning - My Favorite Quotes
-Book Part 1-
"He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How."
"Suffering in an of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it."
"We are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond."
"Yes, a man can get used to anything. But don't ask us how." (reference to concentration camps)
Abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."
"At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most; it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all."
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last if the human freedoms- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way"
"One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate."
"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."
"No one has the right to do wrong, not even if the wrong has been done to them."
