Everything can be taken from a person 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.
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. 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.
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.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.