The Choice: Embrace the Possible
When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them?
THE WORD FOR THAT IS HEALING.
cheryl strayed • Brave Enough
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. —VICTOR FRANKL
Elizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
You have your soul—what Frankl called the last of the human freedoms, the freedom to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. When you exercise the last of the human freedoms—when you choose to learn and to grow from the weight of the world—you are putting your soul in charge of your life. You are choosing not the attitude of your s
... See moreElizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
“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.”