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The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl is known as the founder of logotherapy, a mode of psychotherapy based on man's motivation to search for meaning in his life. The author discusses his ideas in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and descri

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“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”

— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com

Tagged: Tolerant, rights, Belief, Compassion, Understanding

“I would define a specialist as a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of facts.”

— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com

Tagged: strategy

“The boomerang comes back to the hunter who has thrown it, only if it has missed its target.”

— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com

Tagged: strategy

“Pleasure, rather than being the end of man's striving, is actually the effect of meaning fulfillment. And power, rather than being an end in itself, is actually the means to an end; if man is to live out his will to meaning, a certain amount of power–day financial power–by and large will be an indis…”

— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“What then is the meaning of money, or for that matter, the meaning of possessing money? Most of those people who possess it are really possessed by it, obsessing by the urge to multiply it, and thus they nullify its meaning. For the possession of money should mean that one is in a fortunate position…”

— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“As the boomerang comes back to the hunter who has thrown it only if it has missed its target, man, too, returns to himself and is intent upon self-actualization only if he has missed his mission.”

— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Self-Help

“It can have meaning if it changes you for the better.”

— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“People who are spared tension are likely to create it either in a healthy or unhealthy way.”

— Victor E. Frankl, amazon.com

Tagged: Life