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Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: “He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”
Any how
“Frankl would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.”
― Man's Search For Meaning
― Man's Search For Meaning
“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 dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Dostoevski said once, “There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Ryu’s 2024 Year in Books
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Biography, Business, Cookbooks, Ebooks, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Philosophy, and Self help
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