“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life.”
Frankl wrote this after surviving four Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. As a psychiatrist, he observed that the men most likely to endure were those who had someone waiting for them — a child, a wife, an unfinished manuscript.
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