If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
IRVIN D. YALOMIf we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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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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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 spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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