Quotes About Coping

Nenormaliai reaguoti ? nenormali? pad?t? yra normalu.

There was plenty of suffering for us to get through. 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.

El humor es otra de las armas del alma en su lucha por la supervivencia.

There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.

Las palabras de Nietzsche «quien tiene un porqué para vivir puede soportar casi cualquier cómo» podrían ser la motivación de todos los esfuerzos psicohigiénicos y psicoterapéuticos de los prisioneros.

technique called paradoxical intention is applied. At the same time, the patient is enabled to put himself at a distance from his own neurosis. A statement consistent with this is found in Gordon

Once an individual's search for a meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering.

sentimiento que se convierte en sufrimiento deja de serlo en cuanto nos formamos una idea clara y precisa de él»

Pronto, el prisionero construía, gracias a la insensibilidad, un muy necesario escudo protector.

I think it was Lessing who once said There are things which must cause you lose your reason or you have none to lose. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

the period following his admission;

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. … The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. Yet it is possible to practice the art of living even in a concentration camp, although suffering is omnipresent.

The prisoner passed from the first to the second phase; the phase of relative apathy, in which he achieved a kind of emotional death.

T?pk? çok büyük bir atmosfer bas?nc? alt?nda bulunduÄŸu dalg?ç hücresinden birdenbire ayr?lmas? halinde, dalg?c?n fiziksel saÄŸl???n?n tehlikeye girmesi gibi, ruhsal bask?dan birdenbire kurtulan bir insan?n, ahlaki ve ruhsal saÄŸl??? da hasar görebilir.

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)

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior

As we see, the priority stays with creatively changing the situation that causes us to suffer. But the superiority goes to the know-how to suffer, if need be

I think it was Lessing who said, There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour.

a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative. It

I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible." Is this to say that suffering is indispensable to the discovery of meaning? In no way. I only insist that meaning is available in spite of—nay, even through—suffering, provided, as noted in Part Two of this book, that the suffering is unavoidable. If it is avoidable, the meaningful thing to do is to remove its cause, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.

Las reacciones descritas de la primera fase quedaban atrás a los pocos días, en el escaso tiempo que necesitaba un prisionero para entrar en la segunda fase: la de la apatía generalizada que lo llevaba a una especie de muerte emocional.

the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement.

When we are no longer able to change a situation— just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer —we are challenged to change ourselves.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.