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. YALOMA 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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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