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Enjoyed Reading Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl? Then Check Out These 5 Books!
It’s no surprise why Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, has sold more than 12,000,000 copies and continues to inspire people years and years after Frankl’s death. His story of persevering in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II and emerging to still find life meaningful and wonderful should be read by literally everyone.
But if you’ve made your way through that book and want more, there is more. One such book is called Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything, and it was adapted from a speech he gave to a packed house in a Vienna auditorium just months after being liberated by the Russians.
In that book, he says:
“It is terrible to know that at every moment I bear responsibility for the next; that every decision, from the smallest to the largest, is a decision ‘for all eternity’; that in every moment I can actualize the possibility of a moment, of that particular moment, or forfeit it.
Every single moment contains thousands of possibilities — and I can only choose one of them to actualize it. But in making the choice, I have condemned all the others and sentenced them to ‘never being,’ and even this is for all eternity!
But it is wonderful to know that the future — my own…