I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

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.