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.
IRVIN D. YALOMThere 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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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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 you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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