Viktor E. Frankl was a Holocaust survivor, a psychiatrist, and the founder of logotherapy, which loosely translates to purpose/meaning therapy. Logotherapy is also referred to as the “Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy”. Frankl is the author of more than 15 books. Among his most famous books is Man’s Search for Meaning (1946), The Will to Meaning (1969), and The Unconscious God (1943). In each of these books, there is one common thread, man cannot live without meaning.
Below you will find ten insightful quotes from Man’s Search for Meaning (1946).
1. Success

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2. Courage To Suffer

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3. Loving Humans

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4. Growing Old

No, thank you,’ he will think. ‘Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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5. Suffering and Gas

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6. A Transcendent Life

only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
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7. Achievement and Nihilism

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8. Decisions not Conditions

decisions but not on conditions.
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9. Your Unique Purpose

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10. Be Worthy of Your Suffering

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