He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
In plain words
If you know why you are doing something, you can put up with almost anything.
Where these words come from
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- Twilight of the Idols, "Maxims and Arrows," §12, 1888 — Wikiquote's phrasing is a paraphrase popularized via Viktor Frankl; Ludovici's own primary translation (Project Gutenberg) confirms the same aphorism at the same position, in different wording.
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Sun TzuThe wound is the place where the light enters you.
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