Yes to Life

Then we will be free!
If the prisoners of Buchenwald, tortured and worked and starved nearly to death, could find some hope in those lyrics despite their unending suffering, Frankl asks us, shouldn’t we, living far more comfortably, be able to say “Yes” to life in spite of everything life brings us?

She remembers her father saying “That’s living” at even the slightest pleasures.

had a pessimistic, if not entirely depressed, outlook on life.

finding grounds for a hopeful outlook despite it all.

were in dire need of new ethical coordinates.

had been on the brink of death.