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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.
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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 i...
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You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Thus, when we saw a comrade smoking his own cigarettes, we knew he had given up faith in his strength to carry on, and, once lost, the will to live seldom returned.
“There is a sign, Auschwitz!” Everyone’s heart missed a beat at that moment.
