Quotes About Adversity

but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

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Como quien se agarra a un clavo ardiendo, dado mi innato optimismo (que tantas veces me ha ayudado a controlar mis sentimientos, incluso en las situaciones más desesperadas)

the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

We had literally lost the ability to feel pleased and had to relearn it slowly.

How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior

The past few years have certainly disenchanted us, but they have also shown us that what is human is still valid; they have taught us that it is all a question of the individual human being. After all, in the end, what was left was the human being! Because it was the human being that survived amidst all the filth ofthe recent past.

I asked the poor creatures who listened to me attentively in the darkness of the hut to face up to the seriousness of our position.

often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself.

people forgot that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

they offer sufficient proof that 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.

Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself.

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed.

De modo que cada hombre, incluso en condiciones trágicas, puede decidir quién quiere ser —espiritual y mentalmente— y conservar su dignidad humana.

must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what

most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself.

quoted from Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There is a scene

meaning is possible even in spite of suffering—provided, certainly, that the suffering is unavoidable.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. Only