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“Aber neben dieser von der SS getroffenen, sozusagen aktiven Auslese gab es auch noch eine passive: Unter den Lagerinsassen, die sich viele, viele
Jahre in Lagern aufhielten, von einem Lager in das andere und schließlich insgesamt in Dutzende von Lagern gebracht wurden, konnten sich im
Durchschnitt nur jene am Leben erhalten, die in diesem Kampf um die Lebenserhaltung skrupellos waren und auch vor Gewalttätigkeit, ja sogar nicht einmal vor Kameradschaftsdiebstahl zurückschreckten. Wir alle, die wir durch tausend und abertausend glückliche Zufälle oder Gotteswunder – wie immer man es nennen will – mit dem Leben davongekommen sind, wir wissen es und können es ruhig sagen: die Besten sind nicht zurückgekommen.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, ...trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

“Doctors must be psychologically fit for the job — able to make decisions under a terrifying amount of pressure, able to break bad news to us anguished relatives, able to deal with death on a daily basis. They must have something that cannot be memorized and graded; a great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

“Roger Fisher was a professor of law at Harvard University, who suggested back in 1981 that they should implant the American nuclear codes in the heart of a volunteer. If the President wanted to press the big red button and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people, then first he’d have to take a butcher’s knife and dig it out of the volunteer’s chest himself; so that he realizes what death actually means first-hand, and understands the implications of his actions. Because the President would never press the button if he had to do that.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

“Think about the toll the job takes on every healthcare professional, at home and at work. Remember they do an impossible job, to the very best of their abilities. Your time in hospital may well hurt them a lot more than it hurts you.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

“You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilisation in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female'.”
― Erin @ A Dress A Day

“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father. She never questioned it, never thought about it, never even realized that before she made any decision of imprtance the reflext, 'What would Atticus do?' passed through her unconscious; she never realized what made her dig in her feet and stand firm whenever she did was her father; that whatever decent and of good report in her character was put there by her father; she did not know that she worshiped him.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Die ganze Zeit über war sie aufrecht gegangen wie jemand, der nie ein Leid erfahren hatte. Jedes Stück Haut, das nicht genäht worden war, versteckte sie hinter einem sauberen Schleier. Jeglichen Abschied und alle Trauer hatte sie verdrängt. Sie hatte geglaubt, sie könne sich selbst vor Leid schützen, indem sie sich vormachte, nie zerbrochen worden zu sein.
Daher bleiben noch ein paar Dinge für sie zu tun:
Mit dem Lügen aufzuhören.
Ihre Augen zu öffnen und den Schleier wegzuziehen.
Eine Kerze anzuzünden für all die Toten und die Seelen, an die sie sich erinnert – einschließlich ihrer selbst.”
― Han Kang, The White Book

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King