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Man’s Search for Meaning

Sunday, March 15th, 2015

Some quotes from Viktor E. Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”

..suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the ‘size’ of human suffering is absolutely relative.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him–mentally and spiritually… Dostoevski said once, “There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”

…often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how