Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Psychologists
Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychiatrist (1905-1997). Founder of logotherapy, the Third Viennese School, who turned three years in Nazi camps into Man's Search for Meaning (1946) — one of the twentieth century's most influential books.
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Viktor Frankl's Other Quotes
Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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.
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