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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.

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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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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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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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