Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. Our greatest freedom is to choose our attitude.
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.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first.
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
What is to give light must endure burning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
