Viktor Frankl

Psychiatrist, Man's Search for Meaning

“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.”

The one idea

Meaning is a responsibility you answer.

Ideas in the Tracker

Between stimulus and response is a space. Meaning is the answer you give there, even in suffering.

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