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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.

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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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