“Terrible as it was, [Viktor E. Frankl’s] experience in Auschwitz reinforced what was already one of his key ideas: Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it.”

(Victor E. Frankl, Trans. by Ilse Lasch, Man’s Search for Meaning, Boston: Beacon Press, 2006, x; from Foreword by Harold S. Kushner).