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“He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”
itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it.
“may remain brave, dignified and unselfish, or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal.”
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
The man, whose self-esteem had always depended on the respect of others, is emotionally destroyed.
“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
