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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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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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