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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

Irvin D. Yalom

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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Being Fall Give Large Limited Love Mode Person Rather Relate Single Way
The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Anxiety Death Fail Fear Fully Life More
Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Always Creep Experience Helplessness Indeed Morality Reality
Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Being Love Loved Loving Mature
This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Awareness Began Brought Come Confrontation Death Due Existential Experience Increase Preciousness Think
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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Alive Day Dead Ever Exist Forty Known Memory No One Perhaps Some Soon Truly Years
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Activity Another Concerned Growth Life Love Mena
Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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Attempt Difficult Evidence Grow Health Impatient Indeed Operate Profession Small
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Anguish Another Anxiety Death Finitude Mother Religion Temper Way
When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Always Bad Cruisity Have People Sign Themselves
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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Cluster Individual Known Last Live Old People Person Some Someone Thought
And 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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Concern Day Every Example Latter Life Pretty Privacy Security Trivialities Worry
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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Clear Feel Important Lety Live One Thing
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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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Credo Import Therapeutic Life Living Perhaps Single Unexamined Worth
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Death First Learn Live Living Must One

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