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1. I want to make the name Bet-David mean something, so much so that my parents will be proud of the decision they made to leave Iran. 2. I want to work with people who keep their commitments—especially leaders with whom I work and who
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“notion that experiencing can be as valuable as achieving is therapeutic because it compensates for our one-sided emphasis on the external world of achievement at the expense of the internal world of experience.”6”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“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.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Edith Weisskopf-Joelson observed in this context that the logotherapeutic “notion that experiencing can be as valuable as achieving is therapeutic because it compensates for our one-sided emphasis on the external world of achievement at the expense of the internal world of experience.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
Ryu’s 2024 Year in Books
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