“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.”
Viktor Frankl · Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
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“Man is condemned to be free.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism Is a Humanism, 1945
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999
“The only way out is through.”
Robert Frost · A Servant to Servants, 1914
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols, 1889
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology, 399 BC
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay · Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1952
