If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
IRVIN D. YALOMWe take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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