You cannot store up courage in advance for a trial you can only imagine. When the moment comes, you look into your heart and find the strength you need, just in time. That is why people who could never have pictured enduring something still manage to endure it.
Love often shows itself through practical acts, like cooking and mending. When illness or loss takes those acts away, the love can remain just as whole. An invalid who can only sit at a window can still be loving the people around her.
Those who do evil are themselves trapped, blinded by their own hatred. Seeing this lets a person meet their persecutors with sorrow instead of anger, even praying for them. A man with power over prisoners can admit he lives in a prison stronger than theirs.
When love has no way to reach its object, it turns into pain. Killing the love stops the hurt, but part of the person dies with it. The other choice is to find a new route for that love to travel, toward other people.
Forgiveness is not a feeling you wait for. It is an act of the will, and the feeling follows after. This is how it becomes possible to forgive even someone who once guarded you in a camp.