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.
This may be the most important sentence in modern psychology, and its exact origin is uncertain. It is consistently attributed to Frankl and is deeply consistent with logotherapy's core premise — that humans always retain the freedom to choose their attitude, even in the most constrained circumstances. Whether or not Frankl wrote these exact words, they distil his life's work into a single actionable insight: pause before you react.
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason...”
Marcus Aurelius“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca