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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

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This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

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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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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

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The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

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What is to give light must endure burning.

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