I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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We 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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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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