No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
VIKTOR FRANKLOur 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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Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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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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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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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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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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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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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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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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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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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Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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