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“Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from truth, were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot. Yet the fact remains that Jane Austen knew more about men than either of them. Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her.”
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“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”
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“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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