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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.

Viktor Frankl

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
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
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
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
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
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Condition Decision Determination Man
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
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
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
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Deep Forget Human Life Person
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
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
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Creation Detect Inspirational Mission Travel
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
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
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

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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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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