Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. - Viktor Frankl

Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we’ve lived — not whether we’ve been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.

Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

So, let us be alert-alert in a twofold sense:

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.

And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

"ينبغي ألا يسأل الانسان عن معنى حياته وانما على الفرد أن يدرك أنه هو الذي يوجه السؤال اليه. وباختصار, فان كل انسان يجري سؤاله بواسطة الحياة نفسها, وأنه لا يستطيع أن يجيب الا الى الحياة وذلك عن طريق الاجابة في حياته ذاتها, فهو يستطيع أن يستجيب الى الحياة عن طريق الافصاح عن مسؤوليته والتعبير عنها. وهكذا فان العلاج بالمعنى يرى في "الالتزام بالمسؤولية" الجوهر الحقيقي للوجود الانساني."