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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.

Irvin D. Yalom

I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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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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