Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now

According to logotherapy, this striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.

Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.