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.
IRVIN D. YALOMMirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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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 one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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