Quotes About Empowerment

El hombre que se levanta es aún más fuerte que el que no ha caído

El amor es la única vía para llegar a lo más profundo de la personalidad de un hombre. Nadie conoce la esencia de otro ser humano si no lo ama. Por el acto espiritual del amor se contemplan los rasgos esenciales de la persona amada; incluso su potencialidad, lo que aún no ha sido revelado. Aún más: mediante el amor, la persona que ama capacita al amado a actualizar sus posibilidades ocultas. El amor consigue que el otro realice su potencialidad personal.

They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will

Suffering in and of itself is meaningless, we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it.

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. And

Los supervivientes de los campos aún recordamos a los hombres que iban a los barracones a consolar a los demás, ofreciéndoles su único mendrugo de pan. Quizá no fueron muchos, pero esos pocos son una muestra irrefutable de que al hombre se le puede arrebatar todo, salvo una cosa: la libertad humana —la libre elección de la acción personal ante las circunstancias— para elegir el propio camino.

They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

al hombre se le puede arrebatar todo, salvo una cosa: la libertad humana —la libre elección de la acción personal ante las circunstancias

They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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. And

The choices humans make should be active rather than passive.

The basis for any predictions would be represented by biological, psychological or sociological conditions. Yet one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them. Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There is a scene in Arthur Miller's

Finally, Frankl's most enduring insight, one that I have called on often in my own life and in countless counseling situations: Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

they offer sufficient proof that 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. And

Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben." (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

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

If one cannot change a situation that causes his suffering, he can still choose his attitude.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

Most important, he realized that, no matter what happened, he retained the freedom to choose how to respond to his suffering.