Dr. Frankl wrote a Man’s Search for Meaning in 1945. I think one of the reasons why he wrote this book is he wanted to make the accounts that he was forced to endure a tangible reminder of those horrifying days as an inmate in a Jewish concentration camp. His initial intentions for this book were not to acquire the fame that comes wit

My favorite quote from this book is; ”To live is to suffer, and to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.” It puts a new perspective on living day to day in this life. It taught me now, more so than ever, that life goes on even after ultimate suffering. There’s always a rainbow after the rain.

He was under the worst conditions of the concentration camp. He realizes that after all that he’s been through that his bones are still in tact. Whatever he had gone through could still be an asset to him in the future. You learn from what you have done. You learn from your experiences. Life itself is a lesson. Everything that you go through is something to put “under your belt”. Every lesson learned is one more step closer to that unattainable goal of perfection.

“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.” Prisoners of Auschwitz can’t expect anything while in the concentration camp. ”We had to learn this ourselves and had to teach the despairing men.” You can’t really expect anything from life but the unexpected. You can expect certain things like death. Life can expect only what you give to sustain itself.

The key factor in determining what sort of person a prisoner became was how he chose to experience the pain being dealt. If he decided to take it lying down then that would show that later on in life he would not be very successful. Someone who took the pain and used it as something to help them grow would be able to grow through the rest of his life without too much trouble.

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