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The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Viktor Frankl

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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
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
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
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
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Aim Business Inspirational Success Target
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
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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