By Jane E. Brody — 2019
“Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen,” the author of a new book says.
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Frankl’s thesis echoes those of many sages, from Buddhists to Stoics to his 20th century Existentialist contemporaries: “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.”
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