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.
IRVIN D. YALOMYour greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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