Survivors who found meaning in suffering endured what others couldn't

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, drawing on his years in Nazi concentration camps, observed that prisoners who held onto some purpose — a person to return to, a task left unfinished — were far more likely to survive than those who didn't. He built an entire school of therapy, logotherapy, on the idea that meaning matters more than pleasure or power.

— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning — 1946 (English translation 1959)
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