Showing posts with label books - Man's Search For Meaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books - Man's Search For Meaning. Show all posts

Mar 30, 2009

Harold S. Kushner on theories of life's quests

Terrible as it was, [Victor Frankl's] experience in Auschwitz reinforced what was already one of his key ideas: 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. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his of her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. 

~ Harold S. Kushner, Man's Search For Meaning, Foreword, p. x

Mar 29, 2009

Victor E. Frankl on success and happiness

[S]uccess, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

~ Victor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning, Preface to the 1992 Edition, pp. xiv-xv

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