Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
IRVIN D. YALOMLove 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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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