Between stimulus and response ...

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.
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.
 Viktor E. Frankl

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
 Viktor E. Frankl
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
 Viktor E. Frankl
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
 Viktor E. Frankl
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.
 Viktor E. Frankl
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
 Viktor E. Frankl