And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
IRVIN D. YALOMLove 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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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.
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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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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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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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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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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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