Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
Prof. Dr. Franz Vesely. CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy. Author of Man's Search for Meaning (1946); lived 1905–1997.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Those who have a why to live can bear almost any how.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.
What is to give light must endure burning.