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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Viktor Frankl

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
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 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
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Choose Respond
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Deep Expectation Inspirational Life
Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Belief God Unconditional
A human being is a deciding being.
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Decision Human Being One Liner
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Attitude Choose Freedom
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
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Inspirational Intelligence Life
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Acknowledgement Belief Believe Conscience Obey Tolerance
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.
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Despite Freedom Human Life Physical 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
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Deed Discover Experience Life Meaning Suffering

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