Joshua Tindall

“A human being is not one thing among others. Things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes, within the limits of endowment and environment, he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions, but not on conditions.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: Live as if you are living already for the second time, and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.

It seems to me that there is nothing which would stimulate a man's sense of responsibleness more than this maxim, which invites him to imagine: first that the present is past; and second that the past may yet be changed and amended. Such a precept confronts him with life's finiteness, as well as the finality of what he makes out of both his life and himself.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“More and more, a psychiatrist is approached today by patients who confront him with human problems, rather than neurotic symptoms. Some of the people who nowadays call upon a psychiatrist would have seen a pastor, priest, or rabbi in former days. Now they often refuse to be handed over to a clergyman, and instead confront the doctor with questions such as: "What is the meaning of my life?".”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“This sense of genuine and generous, if involuntary, martyrdom is not unknown to the patients themselves. Thus Leonard L., speaking for them all, wrote at the end of his autobiography: "I am a living candle. I am consumed that you may learn. New things will be seen in the light of my suffering".”
― Oliver Sacks, Awakenings