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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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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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 more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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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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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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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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