We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
From Viktor E. Frankl
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
A human being is a deciding being.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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