Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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 that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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I 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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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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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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