Quotes About Adversity

Gariptir; bazen, hedefi ÅŸa??ran bir darbe, hedefi bulandan daha çok yaralay?c? olabiliyor.

Frankl would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

EL DESTINO, UN REGALO La actitud con la que un hombre acepta su destino y el sufrimiento que este conlleva, la forma en que carga con su cruz, comporta la singular coyuntura —incluso en circunstancias muy adversas— de dotar de sentido profundo a su vida. Puede conservar su valor, su dignidad, su generosidad o, arrastrado en la amarga lucha por la supervivencia, puede olvidar su dignidad humana y actuar como un animal, como sucede con los prisioneros de los campos.

la libertad interior puede elevar al hombre por encima de un destino adverso

A man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts. In a different connection, we have already spoken of the tendency there was to look into the past, to help make the present, with all its horrors, less real. But in robbing the present of its reality there lay a certain danger. It became easy to overlook the opportunities to make something positive of camp life, opportunities which really did exist.

Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben. " (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.)

Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand. When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe.

No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

Therefore, it was necessary to face up to the full amount of suffering, trying to keep moments of weakness and furtive tears to a minimum. But 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. Only very few realized that.

That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

I was horrified, but this was just as well, because step by step we had to become accustomed to a terrible and immense horror.

The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days—after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.

we could say that 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.

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

but even one such example is sufficient proof that man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

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.

Para hacerse imitable no se precisa esconder algún suceso oscuro o denigrante, pero sí resulta necesario percibir el ángulo frágil de su entereza...

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners.

know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible." Is

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

suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy."5

El hombre que se dejaba vencer por la ausencia de futuro ocupaba su mente con pensamientos retrospectivos. Ya me he referido a la tendencia a refugiarse en el pasado para apaciguar el horror del presente haciéndolo menos real. Pero

A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and still more intensely.

Strangely enough, a blow which does not even find its mark can, under certain circumstances, hurt more than one that finds its mark.