They could control his entire environment, they could do what they wanted to his body, but Victor Frankl himself was a self-aware being who could look as an observer at his very involvement. His basic identity was intact. He could decide within himself how all of this was going to affect him. Between what happened to him, or the stimulus, and his response to it, was his freedom or power to choose that response.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Begin with the End in Mind.
...moments of potential breakdown are, in fact, opportunities for breakthrough.
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
Perhaps, in utilizing our human capacity to build on the foundation of generations before us, we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up.
Most people listen with the intent to respond, not to understand.
Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.
If you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.
When you engage in synergistic communication, you aren’t sure how things will work out or What the end will look like, but you do have an inward sense of excitement and security and adventure, believing that it will be significantly better than it was before.