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In the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl realized that the Nazis could take everything from him—his family, his clothes, his dignity—except 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. ' He taught that 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.
"Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness."
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."
"You can strip a person of everything except their final liberty: the ability to decide their own attitude regardless of the situation."
"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."
"It is not we who should ask what the meaning of life is, but rather we must recognize that it is we who are being asked."
"Between what happens to us and how we react, there lies a gap. Within that gap exists our ultimate freedom: the power to choose our own response."
"Even when everything else is stripped away, one freedom remains: the ability to choose your own attitude in any given set of circumstances."
"We are not free from conditions, be they biological or sociological, but we are free to take a stand toward them."
"Faith is the ultimate meaning that allows us to survive the most difficult circumstances."
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."
"Between the stimulus and the response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
"The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom."
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