Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.
“The post office, or any world of work, is only one institutionalised system of control that is designed to beat people, to condition them into accepting that humiliation and failure is the norm. Those who do not rebel against this lose any ability to think for themselves. The workers are robbed of power whilst the bosses have only a small amount of it and can only use it arbitrarily, which is to say, pointlessly.”
― Post Office
― Post Office
“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
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I climb the side of a volcano carved from ice, heat drawn from the well of devotion that is the female heart.”
― Devotion
― Devotion
“There were no longer any individual destinies, but a collective history that was the plague, and feelings shared by all.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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