Even In A Concentration Camp

Everything can be taken from a man.

Except for one thing – the last of human freedoms.

The ability to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances: to choose one’s own way.

Viktor Frankl, a WWII survivor, and a prisoner in one of the horrific concentration camp proclaim this truth in his book “Man’s Search For Meaning.”

He says, “In the concentration camps, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swines while others behaved like saints. A man has both potentialities within himself; which on is actuated depends on decisions but not on conditions.”

To acknowledge this truth is one thing.

To live it out daily is another.

Today, how will you choose the attitude that provides for the most positive outcome in your life?

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