If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
IRVIN D. YALOMMarriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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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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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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