Quotes about Endurance

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." I can see in these words a motto which holds true for any psychotherapy. In the Nazi concentration camps, one could have witnessed that those who knew that there was a task waiting for them to fulfill were most apt to survive. The same conclusion has since been reached by other authors of books on concentration camps, and also by psychiatric investigations into Japanese, North Korean and North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camps.

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.

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

A man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.

Love is as strong as death.

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

Lessing who once said, "There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.

Whoever has a why to live can bear almost any how," as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared.

suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Nietzsche, "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. Of