Viktor Frankl

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

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 sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.