When people had a “why” [to live], they could endure hunger, humiliation, rejection. When they lacked it, the smallest suffering became unbearable. – Viktor Frankl.

A single question asked seriously, could open a door into the great conversation – Viktor Frankl.

His search took form in the shape of youth counseling centers.

Still a student, Frankl threw himself into organizing free services for adolescents wrestling with despair. The statistics of youth suicide were grim, and he could not bear to stand idly by. In dim offices, with furniture cobbled together and the paint peeling from walls, he met with young men and women on the verge of extinguishing themselves. He did not talk to them about drives or complexes. Instead, he tried to kindle in them a vision that their lives, however difficult, still contained a task, a responsibility, a meaning waiting to be fulfilled. Later he would remember this period with a quiet pride, for the suicide rate among those who came to the centers dropped dramatically.

– The Wisdom of Viktor Frankl: Meaning, Freedom, and the Search for the Human Spirit.