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.
IRVIN D. YALOMI don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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