He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
IRVIN D. YALOM
The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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 thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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