Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.- Viktor E. Frankl

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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa.

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. -C. S. Lewis

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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. ― W.C. Fields

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If you assign your happiness to external circumstances, you will never find the one thing we all deserve...joy in life. ― Andrew Pacholyk

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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ― Epictetus

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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. ― Epictetus

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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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