Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath 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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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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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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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