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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.

Viktor Frankl

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
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Contrubution Discover Individual Life
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
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
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Pursue
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Belief God Unconditional
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
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.
VIKTOR FRANKL

Determination Each Other Human Being Ultimate
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Condition Decision Determination Man
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
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Aware Core Essence Grasp Human Being Love Personality
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

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