There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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Viktor FranklMan's Search for Meaning (1946)
About Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who wrote Man's Search for Meaning. (1905-1997)
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- Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
- When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
- What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
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