The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
VIKTOR FRANKLForces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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