I stumbled upon these quotes from Victor Frankl over the weekend, and they are extremely powerful. He said he received so much consolation as a prisoner to see other prisoners giving their last pieces of bread to other hungrier prisoners, that he concluded mans freedom and responsibility were the two gifts that no one could take a way from us under any circumstances, they were ours alone! I love his idea that we have a statue of liberty on the east coast and a statue of responsibility on the west coast.
"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."
"Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibilities. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast."
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