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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.

Irvin D. Yalom

Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Between Difference Fall Infinite Love Passion People Spark Stand
Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Alive Day Dead Ever Exist Forty Known Memory No One Perhaps Some Soon Truly Years
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Compreghend Oneself Order Our Preoccuped
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Accident Existence Let Life Plan Possession
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Couch Experience Like Long Need Personal Side Therapist
A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Anxiety Death Deep Dissatisfaction Focus Overcome Point Strat
When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Cluster Dead Death Living Memory Person Truly Vanish Wonder
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Choose Growth Pain Pleasure Prepare Some Want
Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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Being Fall Give Large Limited Love Mode Person Rather Relate Single Way
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Defense Despite Most Staunch Venerable
My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Certain Hunch Make Miserable Mist Most Ruthless Something Trend
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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Ago Anxious Easier General Learn Less Long Patient Person Reach Viall
To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Extent Life Alone One Responsible
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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Even Good Himself Learn Live never Night Remind Thing
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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Ambition Awareness Death Drive Fact More People Temper Twenty
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Community Nonsuperstious Over Search World

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