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“When meaning is honored at the top of any organization, it can be easy to bring meaning to our jobs. It’s a natural reflection of meaningful values. If we are valued and appreciated, if our well-being is nurtured, we feel a part of a meaningful whole. But soulfulness can trickle up, too. It might be more difficult to honor meaning at work with little evidence from above, but it also might be more important to do so.”
― Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work
― Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!50”
― Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work
― Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work
“the worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we are afraid’.”
― Selfhood: A Key to the Recovery of Emotional Wellbeing, Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental Health Problems
― Selfhood: A Key to the Recovery of Emotional Wellbeing, Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental Health Problems
“She is born a breath of cloud. She sees neither her mother nor her father – her mother has died during the birth and not hung around; her father is the cloud itself, silent, weeping, consumed with grief – and so she stands alone, on legs unfamiliar. ‘Where have I come from?’ she asks. There is no answer. ‘Where am I to go?’ There is no answer, even from the cloud, though he knows. ‘May I ask, at least, what I am called?’ After a hesitant moment, the cloud whispers into her ear. She nods her head and understands.”
― The Crane Wife
― The Crane Wife
“Unfortunately, many companies provide employees only with the illusion of feeling free and alive, as opposed to feeling trapped, at work. Even periodic pay increases and other financial rewards may only have this kind of illusory effect, especially if employers, albeit unconsciously, use such instruments in a way that fosters worker attention solely on the paycheck rather than on the reason(s) for their work. In this regard, it is perhaps worthwhile to point out that Frankl viewed the will to money as a primitive form of the will to power.”
― Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work
― Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work
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