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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

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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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Back Bereavement Found Gone Impressive Number Old Rather Simply Study Widow Windower
I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Anything Beter Met never Something Take Way
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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Against Believe Cheer Comfort Illusion Magic Quarry Think Though
Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Being Love Loved Loving Mature
… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Better Give Hope Later Past Sooner
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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Absorbed Being Distinction Heidegger Make Thing Way World
There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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Anxiety Death Doctor Enter Evidence Example Ned Priest Professional Soldier
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Before Birth Darkness Death Identical Life Spark Void
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Accident Existence Let Life Plan Possession
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Alleviate Another Bear Child Children Consciousness Gem Life Loneliness Need Provide Purpose Reproduce Sperm Use Wrong
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Die Fullest Life Live Only Then
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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Always Deliberately Ensure Life Materialize Meaning Ourselves Phenomena Pursue Sense
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Being Dose Mean Require Universal
Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Enough Expression Fear Feeling Interest Opposite Some Write
The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Anxiety Death Fail Fear Fully Life More
As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Apprehenf As Reach Before Crest Death Downward Life Longer Look Mind Path Slope Toward

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