Viktor Frankl 🎂

Julia's & Kory's report in #9 today mentioned Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning. Coincidentally, serendipitously, it's his birthday - as noted by Maria Popova:

Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997) is a timeless testament to the luminous tenacity of the human spirit. His 1946 psychological memoir Man’s Search for Meaning (public library) is one of the most vital books ever written, and one of the most vitalizing one could ever read — a wealth of insight on how to persevere through troubled times and what it means to live fully... (continues)

Frankl said:

• “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.” 
• “Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal 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."
• “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” 

And, quoting Nietzsche:

• “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”