This is one of my top 3 favorite books ever, and I believe everyone should read it. Written by a psychotherapist who suffered unimaginable trauma and loss during WW2, Man\’s Search for Meaning examines how one can maintain hope and humanity in the face of suffering. A couple of my most beloved quotes from this book:

\”Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.\”

\”Even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.\”

\”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.\”

\”Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.\”