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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

Viktor Frankl

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
Success is total self-acceptance.
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Acceptance One Liner Success
There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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Ashamed Courage Suffering Tears Witness
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
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Deep Forget Human Life Person
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
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
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Creation Detect Inspirational Mission Travel
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
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
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
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
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
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
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

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