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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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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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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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