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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Viktor E. Frankl

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Humans Instant Meaning Search
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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Afford Lying Men Opportunity Situation
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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Hands Long Sleep
A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Able Goal Men
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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Encounters Existentialism Suffering
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
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Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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