Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
An uplifting and thought provoking read. Each line of the book bears a precious understanding of life and divine meaning behind living. A book to cherish and should be experienced by one and all.
10 Powerful lessons from the book 🧵
An uplifting and thought provoking read. Each line of the book bears a precious understanding of life and divine meaning behind living. A book to cherish and should be experienced by one and all.
10 Powerful lessons from the book 🧵
1) 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.
2) He who has a “Why” to live for can bear almost any “How”. (Nietzsche)
3) The three possible sources for meaning:
- in work (doing something significant),
- in love (caring for another person), and
- in courage during difficult times.
- in work (doing something significant),
- in love (caring for another person), and
- in courage during difficult times.
4) 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.
5) The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. The salvation of man is through love and in love.
A man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
A man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
6) No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation, he might not have done the same.
7) Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you have acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.
8) Human has potential to creatively turn life’s negative aspects into something positive or constructive – what matters is to make the best of any given situation.
9) It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.
10) Hope and positive energy can turn challenges into triumphs.
The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust. His memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival.
The book continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.
The book continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.
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