Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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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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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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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Living safely is dangerous.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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