“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.”

the man responsible for this quote is a man who had more right than anyone to respond to life’s circumstances with an attitude of hate and disgust. our minds naturally fall short of properly understanding the steadfastness of this man’s character as he suffered a genocide alongside six million others.

with all other dignity lost, this man grasped the only power unstrippable from his physical and spiritual being. subsequently, this power changed his life, and his writing about it changes ours, if we can recognize that space between.

thank you for your precious words, viktor frankl.