Quotes About Perseverance

this book is less about his travails, what he suffered and lost, than it is about the sources of his strength to survive.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Woe to him who, when the day of his dreams finally came, found it so different from all he had longed for!

we knew he had given up faith in his strength to carry on, and, once lost, the will to live seldom returned.

El hombre que se hace consciente de su responsabilidad ante el ser humano que le espera con todo su afecto o ante una obra inconclusa no podrá nunca tirar su vida por la borda. Conoce el porqué de su existencia y podrá soportar casi cualquier cómo.

Whatever our future may hold: We still want to say "yes" to life, Because one day the time will come— Then we will be free! If the prisoners of Buchenwald, tortured and worked and starved nearly to death, could find some hope in those lyrics despite their unending suffering, Frankl asks us, shouldn't we, living far more comfortably, be able to say "Yes" to life in spite of everything life brings us?

When we are no longer able to change a situation

Un renombrado investigador en psicología ha manifestado que la reclusión en un campo de concentración podía denominarse «vida provisional». En virtud de nuestra experiencia, completaríamos esa expresión añadiendo que es una «vida provisional de duración desconocida».

If you want to stay alive, there is only one way: look fit for work. If you even limp, because, let us say, you have a small blister on your heel, and an SS man spots this, he will wave you aside and the next day you are sure to be gassed.

Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you

Esas personas olvidaban que, muchas veces, las circunstancias excepcionalmente adversas otorgan al hombre la oportunidad de crecer espiritualmente más allá de sí mismo.

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

Freedom, we repeated to ourselves, and yet we could not grasp it. We had said this word so often during all the years we dreamed about it, that it had lost its meaning. Its reality did not penetrate into our consciousness; we could not grasp the fact that freedom was ours.

One of the prisoners, who on his arrival marched with a long column of new inmates from the station to the camp, told me later that he had felt as though he were marching at his own funeral. His life had seemed to him absolutely without future. He regarded it as over and done, as if he had already died.

When we spoke about attempts to give a man in camp mental courage, we said that he had to be shown something to look forward to in the future. He had to be reminded that life still waited for him, that a human being waited for his return.

Whoever was still alive had reason for hope. Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society —all these were things that could be achieved again or restored. After all, we still had all our bones intact.

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

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.

suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.

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.