Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

Max DePree
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When we say that something is "in our control," we are usually talking about our ability to make choices. We tend to assume that the choices we make are the result of what we can do, rather than what we can be. But, as Viktor Frankl said in Man's Search for Meaning , "It is not what man can do that matters; it is what man is." What we can do, or how capable we are, is only a consequence of our character.

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