The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
IRVIN D. YALOMDoes a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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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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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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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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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.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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