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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

Viktor Frankl

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
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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Himself Man Meaning Numb Pleasure
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
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
Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Fight Humor Preservation Soul Weapon
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
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
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
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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Existence Finding Himself Man Meaning Outside
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
Success is total self-acceptance.
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Acceptance One Liner Success
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
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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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
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

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