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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.

Viktor Frankl

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
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Beyond Control Except Force Freedom Respond Situation
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
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Cease Finding Moments Sacrifice Suffering
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Deep Expectation Inspirational Life
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
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Change Decision Existence Freedom Human Being Instant Man Token
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
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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Ashamed Courage Suffering Tears Witness
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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Deny Existence Hard Time Inspirational Pain Struggle Suffering
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
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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Deed Discover Experience Life Meaning Suffering
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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Business Decent Race World
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
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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God Intimat Partner
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

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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