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. YALOMThe spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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