Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies are growth in our freedom.
- Topic: Choice, Decision, Freedom
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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.
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?
This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
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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To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
