This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
The last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
- Topic: Attitude, Choice
- Location: Aruba
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.
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Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.