Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
IRVIN D. YALOMA sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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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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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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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 focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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