Viktor Frankl Quote

Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

From Death-camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy (ed. 1959)