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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

Irvin D. Yalom

There 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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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Consciousness Necessarily Ourselves Pass Pieces Place Some
I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Anything Beter Met never Something Take Way
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Decide Life Miserable Spend Think
…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Anxiety Creator Death Life Money Unlive
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
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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Dignity Else Emerence Everything Government Highest More Protection Religion Revelation
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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Everybody Know Other Seen Some Therapy Think You
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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Even Good Himself Learn Live never Night Remind Thing
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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Belief Children Compulsive Develop Ever Famous Future Grow Large Mpregnable Ourselves Project Protective Rescuer Rich Ritual Through Ultimate
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Death First Learn Live Living Must One
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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Back Bereavement Found Gone Impressive Number Old Rather Simply Study Widow Windower
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Consummated Death Die Life Lose One Terror
The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Close Come Door Else Knock One Pain Somewhere
One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Far Fear Group Once Patient Powerful Reason Reluctant Therapist Therapy Thing Too Work
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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Avoid Deceptively Far Favor Free Genuine Ignorant Man

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