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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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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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