Michelle's Quotes by Viktor Frankl (and one from Dune)

From the novel Dune by Frank Herbert: “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.”

From Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl:

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."

"No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true."

"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run - in the long-run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it"

Experiment by Carolyn Wood Sherif. “She had succeeded in artificially building up mutual aggression between groups of boy scouts, and observed that the aggression only subsided when the youngsters dedicated themselves to a collective purpose—that is the joint task of dragging out of the mud a carriage in which food had to be brought to their camp. Immediately they were not only challenged by also united by a meaning they had to fulfill. P. 142-143