To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOMMarriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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