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. YALOMOnly free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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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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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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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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