I read this during a difficult season in my life, one where it would have been easy to fall into self-pity. The timing of this book felt significant. It gave me a clearer understanding of my own thoughts, grief, and the weight of despair in a way that was both grounding and challenging.
Frankl’s account of surviving the concentration camps is direct and sobering, but what stands out most is his perspective. He doesn’t minimize suffering; instead, he reframes it. His idea that meaning, not comfort, is what sustains us shifted how I think about hardship.
The concept of logotherapy was especially impactful. The focus on finding purpose, even in unavoidable suffering, provides a practical and realistic framework for moving forward when circumstances cannot be changed.
This is not a light read, but it is a necessary one. It meets you where you are and quietly forces you to examine how you respond to adversity. For me, it provided clarity at a time I needed it.
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Customers find this book life-changing and deeply inspiring, praising its thought-provoking content and readability. They describe it as a classic that everyone should read, with one customer noting it provides the blueprint for a meaningful life. Customers appreciate its emotional depth, with one review highlighting its beautiful story of personal courage, while another notes how it gives insight into tragic events.
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2256 customers mention content, 2161 positive, 95 negative
Great book and very insightful into how people deal with impossible circumstances and come out the other side.. His psychology seems sound and less...Read more
An amazing book!!! This should be required reading in school even with the descriptions of death camps. This book has given me a new outlook on life....Read more
Excellent book that was not what I expected. This book answered a lot of questions for me and forced me introspect about my life and what I can do.Read more
Good book. Really enjoyed this read. Very inspirational. Very interesting as well. Had some great quotes to live by within.Read more
1242 customers mention readability, 1102 positive, 140 negative
...language a bit unnecessarily confusing or ill worded - nonetheless great read and eye opening for those willing to really digest what Viktor Frankl...Read more
these days these times, this is a good read, and one to give thought too about life, the why's, the how's of where we are today as a society.....and...Read more
A must read. In my top 5 books relating to life and mastering the self. Easy book with tons of phrases you will be storing as reference.Read more
Must read!!!! The autobiography lends insight and understanding to the practice of Logotherapy. This book makes me want to read more of Viktor....Read more
840 customers mention thought-provoking, 825 positive, 15 negative
...This is a wonderful, quick, insightful,inspiring book. Written in direct and simple terms this book is recommended to all!Read more
Very moving book! Thought provoking! A book that crosses the generations! The kind of book that can be reread because each time sheds new light!Read more
I enjoyed this book very much. Very insightful and inspiring. I believe everyone should be expected to read this to give perspective to their lives.Read more
Very thought provoking that gives you a look both into life in a concentration camp and why and how many of us cope. Well worth reading.Read more
736 customers mention inspirational, 726 positive, 10 negative
Motivating, inspiring, and empowering, especially for those suffering from experiencing the existential vacuum. I will recommend this book to anyone!Read more
Profound. Reflective. Transcendent. This book is extremely transformative. I will rethink the logos of my life and find the why to endure any how.Read more
...It is inspirational and comforting to know that a person can find meaning in life through suffering, tragedy, and hard times from one’s attitude...Read more
This is an inspiring book by someone who has suffered and has still found great meaning to life....Read more
305 customers mention meaning, 292 positive, 13 negative
Profoundly moving and meaningful. I regret that I did not read this book many years ago. rckRead more
...The content is difficult to read, but very meaningful, as the title suggests. It's certainly not for the faint of heart....Read more
This book clarified me exactly what the words, meaning of life,is all about. It gave me a sense of spiritual tranquility and happiness....Read more
The most meaningful book I've ever read. Cogent, powerful and moving. Consistently rated a top 5 book of all time.Read more
281 customers mention emotional, 250 positive, 31 negative
Uplifting and transformative, I'll be passing this book along to my teenaged son. I wish all of those who are suffering could read it.Read more
The first part of the book was well-written, poignant and interesting. However the second part was pendantic and thus boring....Read more
...author's experiences in the Nazi death camps was very interesting and touching. It is a very moving testament to what the human spirit can endure....Read more
...It is an awesome story, very inspirational. It is wonderful and sad all at the same time. It made me smile and it made me cry....Read more
257 customers mention story, 245 positive, 12 negative
What Frankl endured and how he persevered is just an amazing story! Frankl gets you to find the meaning in your life and can change your outlook!Read more
Great story to remind each other to stay positive in any circumstances and keep going in life. Highly recommended to reading it over and over againRead more
...This a book that you keep and read every few years. It's an incredible story and it's deeply moving....Read more
...It is a true story of Viktor Frankl's own internment in the Nazi German concentration camps brought to the world as a first-hand account of the...Read more
201 customers mention classic, 201 positive, 0 negative
A Classic! I had the opportunity to hear this author speak years ago while in Graduate School.Read more
...It’s a best seller and a classic. However, the actual quality of the book is very poor....Read more
...Along with over 12 million other readers I have found it a classic book and is a sobering look at life from an altogether profoundly realistic...Read more
...A timeless classic. Viktor Frankl twists and molds your emotions and uses gut-wrenching examples of just how bad life can get....Read more
"To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic." How to find meaning in suffering.
A MUST-READ!! ABSOLUTELY PSYCHE-SHATTERING!! A little slow at the start, BUT SO WORTH IT! I don't think I've ever learned more in relation to how many pages there are, seriously, it's so short, but insightfully and perfectly concise. Infact, theres basically only 2 chapters (one being the longest one I've ever read--92 pages!!) This book follows the authors life while he lost human rights under the National Socialist regime, and the understanding of suffering which helped him form his own therapy method--Logotherapy. "Logotherapy focuses rather on the future, that is to say, on meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in the future. (98)" This is easily my most highlighted book (and I didn't start highlighting until page 66), so here's some of my favorite things from the book I highlighted: "In *Man's Search for Meaning*, he hastens to add that suffering is not necessary to find meaning, only that meaning is possible in spite of suffering. (159)" "to suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic. (159)" "The prisoner who had lost faith in the future--his future--was doomed. (74)" (This booked quotes Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky most!) "How is it possible that men of flesh and blood could treat others as so many prisoners say they have been treated. (84)" "A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and still more intensely. (92)" "... after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore--except his God. (93)" "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas in the chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered the gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. (134)" "Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost for of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. (111)" "Nietzsche's words, 'He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,' could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygenic efforts regarding prisoners. (76)" "Frankl was once asked to express in one sentence the meaning of his own life. '...the meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs' (165)" *one of the last sentence in the book*
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- ChessurReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2024
A Profound Exploration of Purpose and Resilience
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Muy buen libro, lo recomiendo
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