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.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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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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