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I gave this to a friend who was dying of cancer.... I would have given him a Bible but as a Christian, he was already well read in the Bible and had accepted Christ. Anyway, he couldn’t thank me enough and said that outside of Scripture, it was the most meaningful thing he had ever read....

"...it was the most meaningful thing he had ever read...."

Reminds me of a Readers Digest interview they did with actor/comedian Tim Allen. Allen went to prison for five years for drug trafficking in 1978. RD asked him "If there was just one experience in prison that profoundly changed you what would it be?" Allen said that he read the book Man's Search for Meaning and it changed his life forever. Thats what got me to read it the first time. My favorite quotes from the author Viktor Frankl are:

“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.”

And...

“He, who has a why to live for, can bear with almost any how.”