Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowle...
Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii.
My task as a therapist (not unlike that of a parent) is to make myself obsolete - to help a patient become his or her own mother and father
We should treat with indulgence every human folly, failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices. For they are just the failings of man...
Too many people are overly respectful, braying, ‘You’re so brave’ and Irv fell smack into that trap. After all what’s so courageous about having cancer? Once we have it, what choice do we have? But th...
Suntem indragostiti mai mult de dorinta decat de fiinta dorita.
Obwohl uns die Physikalität des Todes zerstört, rettet uns die Idee des Todes.
Oamenii se iubesc pe ei insisi daca vad o imagine iubitoare a lor reflectata in ochii cuiva de care le pasa cu adevarat.
Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to thought to language, is treacherous. Casualties occu...
Living safely is dangerous.
I had helped him understand that he had lost sight of his personal boundaries. It is natural, I had told him, that one should respond adversely to an attack on one’s central core—after all, in that si...
Fiecare alegere presupune o renuntare, si fiecare renuntare ne face constienti de limitare si temporalitate.
Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he’d spend several of these hours sharpening his ax.
I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every...
…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born.
پرسیدن بیماری نیست اطاعت کورکورانه، بدون هیچ پرسشی، بیماری است
وقتی فرد به دلیل انجام ندادن کاری که باید انجام می‌داد، احساس گناه می‌کند، این فکر پدید می‌آید که پس کاری می‌شد کرد و فضای حاصل از این فکر، بسیار تسکین‌دهنده‌تر از حقایق اگزیستانسیال طاقت‌فرسای زندگی...
وضع ذات را حالت می نامم، وضعی که ذات در چیز دیگری تجلی می کند و بوسیله آن چیز ادراک می شود
در درون هر فرد ترسی اساسی و بدوی هست که گاه به شکل ترس از زندگی و گاه به شکل ترس از مرگ رخ می‌نماید.
خوشبختی یا بدبختی ما بسته به کیفیت چیزی است که به آن دل می بندیم