If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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Death 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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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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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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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