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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.

Viktor Frankl

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
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
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
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
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Conscience Endurance Life Overcome Person Task Trouble
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
Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Belief God Unconditional
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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Change Decision Existence Freedom Human Being Instant Man Token
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
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
Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Life Man Search
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
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Crisis Depend Finding Life Meaning People Seek Strength Survival Time
Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Despair Meaning One Liner Suffering
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
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

You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.

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