Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl distills a profound truth: “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.”9
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
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“Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
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