The Unheard Cry For Meaning

Viktor Frankl

Our will to meaning, not our will to pleasure or our will to power, is what illuminates our lives with true freedom.

True optimism is actually three choices, 1) we choose a positive attitude about the situation at hand, 2) we choose an attitude that supports a form of creative realization about what is possible and 3) we choose an attitude that generates passion for the action that makes the possible become a reality.

Viktor Frankl passionately warned us about an "unheard cry for meaning". He characterized this as coming from a combination of three things - depression, aggression and addiction.