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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.

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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
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
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
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
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
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Challenge Change Inspirational Ourselves Situation
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
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
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
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
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Circumstance Lack Life Meaning Purpose
Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
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Inspirational Intelligence Life
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Bad Deed Done Forget Good Grudge
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search

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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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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