Quotes About Endurance

Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how

He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest – and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Los hombres ilustres siempre recomienzan, y eso los convierte en admirables e imitables.

A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction.

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

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.

He main retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, 'There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings'.

Suffering in and of itself is meaningless, we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it.

Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

He who knows the 'Why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'How'.

There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

love is as strong as death.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." I

Hay mucha sabiduría en las palabras de Nietzsche: «Quien tiene un porqué para vivir puede soportar casi cualquier cómo».

No nos entraba en la cabeza que nos lo quitarían todo, absolutamente todo.

Those who have not gone through a similar experience can hardly conceive of the soul-destroying mental conflict and clashes of will power which a famished man experiences.

Why to live for enabled them to bear the How.

He describes poignantly the prisoners who gave up on life, who had lost all hope for a future and were inevitably the first to die.

men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest – and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

We walked slowly along the road leading from the camp. Soon our legs hurt and threatened to buckle. But we limped on; we wanted to see the camp's surroundings for the first time with the eyes of free men. 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.

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death." This

Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben." (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering