Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas...
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, eve...
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a...
We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why...
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reaso...
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.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficie...
If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.