There are three main avenues by which one arrives at meaning in life. The first is by creating a work or by doing a deed. The second is by experiencing something or encountering someone; in other words meaning can be found not only in work but also in love. …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 himsel. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

…meaning is available in spite of — nay, even through — suffering, provided that the suffering is unavoidable. If it is avoidable, the meaningful thing to do is to remove its cause, for unncessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic. If, on the other hand one cannot change a situation which causes suffering, he can still choose his attitude.

:Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“I broke my neck, it didn’t break me.”

:Jerry Long — has been paralyzed from his neck down since a driving accident which rendered him a quadriplegic. As quoted by Victor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning

A human being is not in the pursuit of happiness, but rather in search of a reason to become happy…

:Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

:Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.

:Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning