Don’t aim at success-the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.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. In Courage: We give meaning to suffering by the way in which we respond to it.įorces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.The great task for any person is to find meaning is his or her life.
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.But I pick and choose ideas to include at my discretion. The following book summary is a collection of my notes and highlights taken straight from the book.
In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost but everything irrevocably stored. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. We should not ask, “What is the meaning of Life?” It is Life that poses the problem and asks the question of us. The more one forgets himself-by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love-the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. 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 is the primary motivation in his life. Viktor Frankl passed through the darkest depths of human’s capacity for evil, and yet he didn’t emerge angry, resentful, or nihilistic, but rather encouraged, optimistic, and hopeful by what he described as man’s ultimate freedom and responsibility in life-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. According to Frankl, man can find meaning in his work, in his love for another, and in the courage required to endure suffering. In this autobiographical bestseller, Viktor Frankl recounts his experiences surviving the Holocaust and describes how it shaped his understanding whereby man finds meaning for his life.
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