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181 " But the voice insisted: Find the bigot in you. Find the part in you that is judging, assigning labels, diminishing another’s humanity, making others less than who they are. "
― Edith Eger , The Choice: Embrace the Possible
182 " frozen limbs for the involuntary movements of dyskinesia—an uncoordinated dance of repeating tics and motions, when the nervous system sends the signal for the body to move without the mind’s permission. "
183 " Correr riesgos no significa lanzarnos a ciegas al peligro, sino asumir nuestros miedos para no ser prisioneros de ellos. "
184 " others. "
185 " We Hungarians can’t end a night of drinking without eating sauerkraut soup. Mariska brings steaming bowls of it. "
186 " Mientras bailo, se me ocurre un razonamiento que nunca he olvidado. Nunca sabré qué milagro me proporciona ese conocimiento. Me salvará la vida muchas veces, incluso después de que el horror haya acabado. Veo que el doctor Mengele, el avezado asesino que esta misma mañana ha asesinado a mi madre, da más lástima que yo. Yo soy libre en mi mente, cosa que él nunca será. Él tendrá que vivir para siempre con lo que ha hecho. Está más prisionero que yo. Cuando concluyo mi coreografía con un elegante spagat final, rezo, pero no rezo por mí. Rezo por él. Para que no sienta la necesidad de matarme. "
187 " be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be assertive is to decide for yourself. And to trust that there is enough, that you are enough. "
188 " Denial is our shield. We don’t yet know the damage we perpetuate by cutting ourselves off from the past, by maintaining our conspiracy of silence. We are convinced that the more securely we lock the past away, the safer and happier we will be. "
189 " I don’t immediately recognize this feeling. Then I remember. This is what it feels like to be happy. "
190 " But when we ask why, we’re stuck searching for someone or something to blame—including ourselves. "
― Edith Eger , The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
191 " I’d been liberated from the concentration camps of the Holocaust. Today, more than seventy years have passed. What happened can never be forgotten and can never be changed. But over time I learned that I can choose how to respond to the past. I can be miserable, or I can be hopeful—I can be depressed, or I can be happy. We always have that choice, that opportunity for control. I’m here, this is now, I have learned to tell myself, over and over, until the panicky feeling begins to ease. "
192 " Viktor Frankl’s brilliant classic Man’s Search for Meaning. "
193 " Es la primera vez que veo que podemos decidir: podemos prestar atención a lo que hemos perdido o prestar atención a lo que todavía tenemos. "
194 " suffering is universal. But victimhood is optional. "
195 " «Cuantas más opciones tengas —dije—, menos víctima te sentirás. Hablemos de tus opciones.» Hicimos una lista. "
196 " No puedes curar lo que no puedes sentir. "
197 " The truth is, we will have unpleasant experiences in our lives, we will make mistakes, we won’t always get what we want. This is part of being human. The problem—and the foundation of our persistent suffering—is the belief that discomfort, mistakes, disappointment signal something about our worth. The belief that the unpleasant things in our lives are all we deserve. "
198 " Siempre hay dos mundos. El que elijo y el que niego, que entra siempre sin mi permiso. "
199 " Y el verdadero sentimiento disfrazado por la máscara de la ira es habitualmente el miedo. "
200 " Survivors don’t have time to ask, “Why me?” For survivors, the only relevant question is, “What now? "