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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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Chance Life Second Time
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
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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One Pleasant Tasks
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
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 can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Find Men
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
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Firsts Machine Patient
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Challenges Expression Motivational
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Different Life Suffering
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Away Choose One Thing Way
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
A human being is a deciding being.
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Choices Inspirational Thrive
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Answers Life Men
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Life Man Meaning Search Suffering
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
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life … Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life … second, by what we take from the world … third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.
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Fate Giving Meaningful
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Famous Fire Inspirational Strong
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Bears Men Philosophers
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Beloved Mans Meaning Search
It is always important to have something yet to do in life.
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Important Life Something
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 Humans Situation
It said to me, ‘I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.’
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Eternal Life Said
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Future Past Today Undermine
Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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