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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.

Viktor Frankl

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
It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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Determination Future Life Past Present
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
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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Deep Life Meaning Suffering
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
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
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Meaning One Liner Suffering
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
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
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
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
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
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
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
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 can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside

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