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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Viktor Frankl

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
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
Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Belief God Unconditional
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Dedication Effect Happiness Oneself Personal Success Unexpected
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Circumstance Lack Life Meaning Purpose
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Crisis Depend Finding Life Meaning People Seek Strength Survival Time
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Determination Each Other Human Being Ultimate
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
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Determination Future Life Past Present
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Deny Existence Hard Time Inspirational Pain Struggle 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
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Be Yourself Life Separate Spark Unique
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love One Liner Salvation

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

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