Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
IRVIN D. YALOMLife is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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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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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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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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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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