Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor Frankl
The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
We cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives.
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.
In some ways, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
