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“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have be
by EvanKelly 13y ago
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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."
-Viktor Frankl
It's rare that something immediately changes my outlook on life, but this quote did it. I was hesitant to read "Man's Search For Meaning" thinking it to be a pithy self-help book. I was wrong. Frankl's book helped me through what I hope to be the most difficult period of my life.
- kio 13y agoI had a similar experience as yours and was changed by the following simple thought. Here is a sentence out of the book Peony by Pearl S Buck, pg 170. " It is within a man's power to choose happiness and reject sorrow." Just a few words but when deeply understood more powerful than any monolith of philosophy.