My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
IRVIN D. YALOMThough the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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