A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
IRVIN D. YALOMMature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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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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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.
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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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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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