- irreplaceable losses
- future
- past
- opportunities for meaning
- meaning of sacrifice
1 ) How many irreplaceable losses have you really had? Probably only a few.
“Whoever was still alive had reason for hope. Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society all these were things that could be achieved again or restored.” -- Frankl
“That which doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” -- Nietzsche
2 ) You don’t know what the future will bring. There are always opportunities for individuals to improve their situation a little on the short term.
“For no man knew what the future would bring, much less the hour” -- Frankl
3 ) The past has had many joys, and that will stay with you forever.
“What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.” -- poet
“Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind” -- Frankl
4 ) There are always opportunities to give life meaning
“keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from its dignity and its meaning” -- Frankl
5 ) Sacrifice has meaning in any case
“I told them of a comrade who on his arrival in camp had tried to make a pact with Heaven that his suffering and death should save the human being he loved from a painful end. For this man, suffering and death were meaningful” -- Frankl
(src: Man’s Search for Meaning)