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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.

Viktor E. Frankl

One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Attitude Freedom Positive Thinking
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Change Inspirational Positive
But 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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Courage Grief Men
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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Despair Disease Mean Men
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Meaning Men Search
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans 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
…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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Answers Meditation Thinking
I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Long Running Thinking
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
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Frame May Spiritual Views
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
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Determined Giving Men
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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Find Life Meaning Motivation
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Being Happy Inspirational Leadership

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