evidence: The comment immediately sent Frankl retreating into his imagination. He pictured his wife, the way she would talk to him and smile at him. Such a thought was a mere distraction from his reality, but it was a beautiful distraction. One that led him to discover it was love which truly allowed those who suffer to persevere despite their circumstances. Even then, on that dreadful march in the dead of winter, Frankl pushed on because he was able to retreat within himself. He quickly learned that while the body may be beaten, broken, and forced to kneel, one’s spirit remained unconquerable. This was the only reason why Frankl and few others were able to survive. [...] Man’s Search For Meaning is a book about many things. Beyond its historical significance, the book is a meditation on meaning, and how one finds meaning in the most desolate places. When Frankl stepped off of that train and into the camp, he made a choice. It was Frankl himself who beautifully said "Between stimulus and response there is a space. We are our choices, and the amount in which we suffer is entirely dependent on our response to the innate condition of suffering. We may choose to suffer, or we may choose to thrive despite the condition of suffering. The choice, as Frankl says, is up to us.