Living safely is dangerous.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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