Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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