Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
IRVIN D. YALOMSome 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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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