Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath 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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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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