Four Thousand Weeks – Quote 80

Austrian psychotherapist Viktor Frankl, author of *Man’s Search for Meaning,* who was able to fend off despair as a prisoner in Auschwitz because he retained the ability to direct a portion of his attention toward the only domain the camp guards couldn’t violate: his inner life, which he was then able to conduct with a measure of autonomy, resisting the outer pressures that threatened to reduce him to the status of an animal.