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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

Viktor Frankl

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
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
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
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
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
Success is total self-acceptance.
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Acceptance One Liner Success
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
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Deep Expectation Inspirational Life
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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Freedom Life Meaning Purpose Spiritual
Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Belief God Unconditional
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
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
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Beloved Importance Love Person Physical Spiritual
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 Freedom Human Life Physical Situation
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 can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

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