Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
IRVIN D. YALOMOnly the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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