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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

Viktor Frankl

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
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
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light 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
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
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
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
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
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Fate Inspirational Man Raise Strength
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Bad Inspirational World Worse
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Avoid Concern Gain Life Man Meaning Pain Pleasure
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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
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 salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Love One Liner Salvation

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

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