Mature love is loving, not being loved.
IRVIN D. YALOMDoes a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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