To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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