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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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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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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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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Choose Every Must Person Stand Truth
What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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