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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

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Challenges Life Meaning Men
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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Believe Liberty Mean
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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Happiness Pursuit Thwart
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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Life Spark Unique Web
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
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Envy Past Possibility Reality Suffering
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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Neurosis People Sunday
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its 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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Alive Deepest Meaning Self Spiritual
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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Existence Men Moments
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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Asking Life Man Meaning Search
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Country Lectures Ministry Ultimately
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Existential Suffering
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two

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