Best Of Viktor E. Frankl's "Embracing Hope"
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life by Viktor E. Frankl You see, there is also empirical evidence to the effect that teenagers are too much concerned with self-interpretation and self-actualization. Both, of course, are detrimental. They obviate what I call self-transcendence. You should, and may, actualize yourself. But you can actualize yourself only to the extent to which you turn outward! And even Abraham Maslow-the man who, more than anyone else, propagated and promulgated the concept of self-actualization-in his latest works before he died, was conceding and agreeing with my criticism: that self-actualization can never be aimed at as a target. If you aim at it, you are missing it. The same as with happiness, with pleasure and so forth. p. 63 Nobody can deprive and rob us of what we have put into the past. The deed done, a love loved, a suffering honestly gone through, is something indelible. We usually...
