In any situation we always have a choice.
Always.
We might have a choice on the action we can take, the meaning we give, or our emotional response…
We might kid ourselves that we have no choice, but we know that’s a lie.
“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.”
Dr Viktor Frankyl
Viktor Frankyl, an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist, learnt this in the Nazi concentration camps.
It’s worth remembering this so that we make our choice consciously.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.