
- When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
- 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.
- Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
- But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
- An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
- In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
- So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
- No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
- Happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue.
(Unfinished)
- Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. (explaination needed)
- Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. (exp needed)
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. (…..)
- It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. (…)
- The pessimist resembles a man ……………