New Delhi, May 25 -- Today, the Quote of the Day is by Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl: "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him."

Viktor Frankl, born in Vienna in 1905, was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor and founder of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy centred on the human search for meaning.

Before World War II, he trained in medicine and psychiatry; during the Nazi era, he was imprisoned in concentration camps, an experience that later shaped his best-known work, Man's Search for Meaning.

Britannica notes that Frankl's theory argued that the primary motivation of human beings is the search for meaning in ...