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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.

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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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A 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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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