Mature love is loving, not being loved.
IRVIN D. YALOMSome piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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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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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.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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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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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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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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