"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." ~ Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl. He's unquestionably one of my heroes and his book, Man's Search for Meaning is a must read (or re-read as the case may be). If you don't have it yet, it's time to Amazon it.
The man survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and, from that pain, brought the world his "Logotherapy"—a philosophy based on the fundamental precept that we have ultimate responsibility for choosing our responses to any given challenge while honoring the equally powerful responsibility to determine how we will create a truly meaningful life by fully giving ourselves to the world.
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