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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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