Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

not for the sake of good food itself, but for the sake of knowing that the sub-human existence, which had made us unable to think of anything other than food, would at last cease.

“The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”

be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.