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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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Choose Respond
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
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love One Liner Salvation
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Act Live Time Wrong
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Condition Decision Determination Man
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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Inspirational Intelligence Life
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Avoid Concern Gain Life Man Meaning Pain Pleasure
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Attain Business Goals Motivational Strive
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
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
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Creation Detect Inspirational Mission Travel
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
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Flourish Health Human Key Meaning Mental
Success is total self-acceptance.
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Acceptance One Liner Success
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Conscience Endurance Life Overcome Person Task Trouble
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Absolute Done Himself Honesty Judgment Man Same Situation
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Circumstance Lack Life Meaning Purpose
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Bad Inspirational World Worse
Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Freedom Life Meaning Purpose Spiritual
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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Acknowledgement Belief Believe Conscience Obey Tolerance

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