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Old 01-24-2007, 02:55 AM   #34 (permalink)
gypsyrose
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Viktor Frankl's
Man's Search for Meaning....

This book taught me the meaning of true freedom. While Frankl was being tortured in a concentration camp during WW2, he realized that the one thing that could not be taken from him was his freedom to choose his response to life. Quote:

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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.

This is the most positive and life affirming book I've ever read.
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