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Top 160 Edith Eger Quotes (2026 Update)
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Edith Eger Quote: “Yet leaving would require her to exchange a known reality for an unknown one. This is usually what stops us from taking risks. We’d rather stick with what we know, painful or untenable as it is, than face what we don’t know. When you risk, you don’t know how it will turn out. It’s possible that you won’t get what you want, that things will be worse. But you’ll still be better off, because you’ll be living in the world as it is, not in an imaginary reality created by your fear.”

151. “Yet leaving would require her to exchange a known reality for an unknown one. This is usually what stops us from taking risks. We’d rather stick with what we know, painful or untenable as it is, than face what we don’t know. When you risk, you don’t know how it will turn out. It’s possible that you won’t get what you want, that things will be worse. But you’ll still be better off, because you’ll be living in the world as it is, not in an imaginary reality created by your fear.”

Edith Eger Quote: “Thank you for life, and for the ability to finally accept the life that is.”

152. “Thank you for life, and for the ability to finally accept the life that is.”

Edith Eger Quote: “I don’t immediately recognize this feeling. Then I remember. This is what it feels like to be happy.”

153. “I don’t immediately recognize this feeling. Then I remember. This is what it feels like to be happy.”

Edith Eger Quote: “Freedom is a lifetime practice – a choice we get to make again and again each day.”

154. “Freedom is a lifetime practice – a choice we get to make again and again each day.”

Edith Eger Quote: “Now, on the eve of my return to prison, I remind myself that each of us has an Adolf Hitler and a Corrie ten Boom within us. We have the capacity to hate and the capacity to love. Which one we reach for – our inner Hitler or inner ten Boom – is up to us.”

155. “Now, on the eve of my return to prison, I remind myself that each of us has an Adolf Hitler and a Corrie ten Boom within us. We have the capacity to hate and the capacity to love. Which one we reach for – our inner Hitler or inner ten Boom – is up to us.”

Edith Eger Quote: “Only after many years did I come to understand that running away doesn’t heal pain. It makes the pain worse. In America I was farther geographically than I had ever been from my former prison. But here I became more psychologically imprisoned than I was before. In running from the past – from my fear – I didn’t find freedom. I made a cell of my dread and sealed the lock with silence.”

156. “Only after many years did I come to understand that running away doesn’t heal pain. It makes the pain worse. In America I was farther geographically than I had ever been from my former prison. But here I became more psychologically imprisoned than I was before. In running from the past – from my fear – I didn’t find freedom. I made a cell of my dread and sealed the lock with silence.”

Edith Eger Quote: “We can’t erase the pain. But we are free to accept who we are and what has been done to us, and move on.”

157. “We can’t erase the pain. But we are free to accept who we are and what has been done to us, and move on.”

Edith Eger Quote: “When we’re in the habit of denying our feelings, it can be hard even to identify what we’re feeling, much less face it, express it, and finally release.”

158. “When we’re in the habit of denying our feelings, it can be hard even to identify what we’re feeling, much less face it, express it, and finally release.”

Edith Eger Quote: “Viktor Frankl’s brilliant classic Man’s Search for.”

159. “Viktor Frankl’s brilliant classic Man’s Search for.”

Edith Eger Quote: “Everything in life is temporary. So what can you do today that you previously avoided? How can you turn your anxiety into excitement? And how can you discern not only what feeds you, but what truly nourishes you? Today, say no to one thing that depletes you; say yes to one thing that empowers you.”

160. “Everything in life is temporary. So what can you do today that you previously avoided? How can you turn your anxiety into excitement? And how can you discern not only what feeds you, but what truly nourishes you? Today, say no to one thing that depletes you; say yes to one thing that empowers you.”

Edith Eger Quote: “But here I became more psychologically imprisoned than I was before. In running from the past – from my fear – I didn’t find freedom. I made a cell of my dread and sealed the lock with silence.”

161. “But here I became more psychologically imprisoned than I was before. In running from the past – from my fear – I didn’t find freedom. I made a cell of my dread and sealed the lock with silence.”

Edith Eger Quote: “I don’t want to dream the wrong thing.”

162. “I don’t want to dream the wrong thing.”

Edith Eger Quote: “A veces, es el dolor el que nos impulsa y, a veces, es la esperanza.”

163. “A veces, es el dolor el que nos impulsa y, a veces, es la esperanza.”

Edith Eger Quote: “When we’ve been victimized, there’s a part of our psyche that identifies with the victimizer, and sometimes we adopt that punitive, victimizer stance toward ourselves, denying ourselves the permission to feel good, depriving ourselves of our birthright: joy.”

164. “When we’ve been victimized, there’s a part of our psyche that identifies with the victimizer, and sometimes we adopt that punitive, victimizer stance toward ourselves, denying ourselves the permission to feel good, depriving ourselves of our birthright: joy.”

Edith Eger Quote: “You need to push him to the level of his potential.”

165. “You need to push him to the level of his potential.”

Edith Eger Quote: “Victimhood is rigor mortis of the mind. It’s stuck in the past, stuck in the pain, and stuck on the losses and deficits: what I can’t do and what I don’t have.”

166. “Victimhood is rigor mortis of the mind. It’s stuck in the past, stuck in the pain, and stuck on the losses and deficits: what I can’t do and what I don’t have.”

Edith Eger Quote: “We Hungarians can’t end a night of drinking without eating sauerkraut soup. Mariska brings steaming bowls of it.”

167. “We Hungarians can’t end a night of drinking without eating sauerkraut soup. Mariska brings steaming bowls of it.”

Edith Eger Quote: “To be a hero requires taking effective action at crucial junctures in our lives, to make an active attempt to address injustice or create positive change in the world.”

168. “To be a hero requires taking effective action at crucial junctures in our lives, to make an active attempt to address injustice or create positive change in the world.”

Edith Eger Quote: “I’m very selective about who’s going to get my anger, because when I’m angry, I’m the one who suffers.”

169. “I’m very selective about who’s going to get my anger, because when I’m angry, I’m the one who suffers.”

Edith Eger Quote: “Words are treasures that I offer her again and again.”

170. “Words are treasures that I offer her again and again.”

Edith Eger Quote: “We can’t choose to vanish the dark, but we can choose to kindle the light. In those predawn hours in the autumn.”

171. “We can’t choose to vanish the dark, but we can choose to kindle the light. In those predawn hours in the autumn.”

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