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

Viktor Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man
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
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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Inspirational Intelligence Life
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Beloved Importance Love Person Physical Spiritual
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Deep Expectation Inspirational Life
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Condition Decision Determination Man
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Bad Inspirational World Worse
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Act Inspirational Live Time Wrong
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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Ashamed Courage Suffering Tears Witness
A human being is a deciding being.
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Decision Human Being One Liner
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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God Intimat Partner

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