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“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.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”
― The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
― The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
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