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.
IRVIN D. YALOMAnd if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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