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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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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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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Choose Every Must Person Stand Truth
You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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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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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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