Quotes About Strength

To Suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

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 a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Even more powerful than fate is the courage that bears it steadfastly.

I believe that my handicap will only enhance my ability to help others. I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible.

Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths.

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

Dostoevski said once, There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Et lux in tenebris lucet—and the light shineth in the darkness

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

having a Why to live for enabled them to bear the How.

There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed.

Psychological observations of the prisoners have shown that only the men who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influences.

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

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.

El hombre que se levanta es aún más fuerte que el que no ha caído

there are moments when indignation can rouse even a seemingly hardened prisoner-indignation not about cruelty or pain, but about the insult connected with it.

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

one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them.

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'.

love is as strong as death.

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