“Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who spent many years in a concentration camp during the Second World War, wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning that everything in life can be taken from you except one thing: your freedom to choose how you will respond to a situation. I think what determines your quality of life is how you relate to the realities of your life. If you choose a way that’s stressful and angry, it creates neural pathways in your brain that become hard-wired. If you choose—through meditation, through cognitive therapy, through doing a life review—to alter the way you view those events, it changes the way your brain is hard-wired.”
— “In conversation: Jane Fonda,” Maclean’s, September 5, 2011
