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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

Irvin D. Yalom

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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Book Future Idea might None Part Patient Reality Say Some Trouble
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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Even Good Himself Learn Live never Night Remind Thing
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Choose Growth Pain Pleasure Prepare Some Want
Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Alternate Between Footprint Marvel Mountain Now Sob Think Together Torrential
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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Absolute Always Corrupt Individual Known Power Trick
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Death Form Mode Number Other Primary Specialties Take Transcendence
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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Apprehenf As Reach Before Crest Death Downward Life Longer Look Mind Path Slope Toward
We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Effect Growth Life Local Patient Pleasure Ripple Salutary Take Touch
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Country Curious Experiment Life Live Message People Person Repeat Same Such Through Way Willing
Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Being Love Loved Loving Mature
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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Couch Experience Like Long Need Personal Side Therapist
Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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Important Pathology People Relationship Student Teach Work
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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Awareness Earth Finiteness Greater Help Improve Live Really Some Sort
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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Dignity Else Emerence Everything Government Highest More Protection Religion Revelation
… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Better Give Hope Later Past Sooner
The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Anxiety Death Disappointment Fulfilled Have Many never People Fuel Potential

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