Author of quotes: Edith Eva Eger

Self-denial benefits no one; it only deprives everyone equally.

In Auschwitz, those who were only for themselves and for themselves simply did not survive.

Love is the time you spend with your child.

Read, read to your child as much as possible! This turns him on! Reading is an active pastime, unlike TV. TV brings up only dolls and bobbleheads.

Life - even with its inevitable trauma, pain, suffering and death - is a gift. A gift we neglect when we make ourselves prisoners of our fears, wounds, pain, shame, feelings of superiority or inferiority, our need for power and control. To exalt the gift of life means to find this gift in everything that happens around us, even in the most difficult moments, even when we are not sure that we can survive. We just need to glorify life - that's all. Live with joy, love and passion.

It doesn't relieve pain.

You have the right to feel anger, anger, rage. These are human emotions. You are human.

Forgiveness is not for the sake of those who have harmed us. When we forgive someone, we do it solely for our own sake - in order not to remain victims and hostages of the past, in order to stop dragging a heavy load through our whole life that contains nothing but bali.

Hope is a magnified version of curiosity. It is the readiness to cultivate in oneself everything that can kindle a fire, and to illuminate the darkest places with its light.

We are born to love and we learn to hate. It is up to us to decide what we choose from this.

The worst person can be the best teacher.

Not all of us are descendants of the Nazis. But in each of us there is a Nazi.

I fully welcome positive thinking, but it will get you nowhere unless it is followed by positive action.

The best protection against mental anguish is the ability to love and forgive yourself, the ability to be harmless to yourself, the ability not to punish yourself for mistakes, resentment and pain - integral companions of our lives.