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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.

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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
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
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
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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Be Yourself Life Separate Spark Unique
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Art Attempt Development Learning Light Live Master Sense Of Humor Trick
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Circumstance Lack Life Meaning Purpose
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love One Liner Salvation
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Attitude Choose Freedom
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
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
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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Abnormal Behavior Normal Reaction Situation
A human being is a deciding being.
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Decision Human Being One Liner
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Act Inspirational Live Time Wrong
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
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
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Creation Detect Inspirational Mission Travel
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Deep Forget Human Life Person
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
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Meaning One Liner Suffering
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Pursue
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Freedom Life Meaning Purpose Spiritual
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
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
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Man Raise Strength

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