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In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Viktor Frankl

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Avoid Concern Gain Life Man Meaning Pain Pleasure
Forces 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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Beyond Control Except Force Freedom Respond Situation
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
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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Choose Freedom Growth Power Response Space
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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Act Live Time Wrong
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Deep Forget Human Life Person
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Deep Expectation Inspirational Life
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Attitude Choose Freedom
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Abnormal Behavior Normal Reaction Situation
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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Change Decision Existence Freedom Human Being Instant Man Token
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Absolute Done Himself Honesty Judgment Man Same Situation
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Contrubution Discover Individual Life

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