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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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, to choose one’s own way.
You and you alone are responsible for your re-action, regardless of circumstance and the act(ion) that caused it
“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
“Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.”
man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours—a friend, a wife, somebody alive or dead, or a God—and he would not expect us to disappoint him. He would hope to find us suffering proudly—not miserably—knowing how to die.
Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.
“The wish is father to the thought”
“The fear is mother of the event.”
freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.
