The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
IRVIN D. YALOMMy 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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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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