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• A vocation is not about the pursuit of happiness, if by “happiness” you mean being in a good mood, having pleasant experiences, or avoiding struggle and pain.
• résumé virtues are the ones you list on your résumé, the skills that you bring to the job market and that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They’re the virtues that get talked about at your funeral, the ones that exist at the core of your being—whether you are kind, brave, honest or faithful; what kind of relationships ...
• “At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world’s deep need?”
• Frankl spent most of his time in camp laying tracks for railway lines. This was not the life he had planned for himself.
• And it became clear to him that what sort of person he would wind up being depended upon what sort of inner decision he would make in response to his circumstances.