There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In his seminal book, Man’s Search for Meaning, the psychiatrist Victor Frankl described the essence of what has come to be known… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are… — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When the movie 'Sliding Doors' came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time.… — Jessica Rothe Copy Share Image
“The human psyche evolved in order to defend itself against seeing the truth. To prevent us from catching sight of the mechanism.… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“I believe that in the process of locating new avenues of creative thought, we will also arrive at an existential conservatism. It… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
As a physician who was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, getting drunk on weekends, stressed out about having 35 patients… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
I went through this kind of existential crisis. I was going through a breakup; I tore my ACL and my meniscus and… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on… — Javier Marias Franco Copy Share Image
I seem to have come out of the womb with existential angst and wasn't a happy kid, so I've been on a… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man... What is demanded of man is not, as some existential… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
“Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I'm not afraid anymore. But I know that the terror exists. I know the kind of terror it is. You can't conceive… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
This is the personal side of things. When I started going through some of those transitions in my mind, just as a… — Fernando Mastrangelo Copy Share Image
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
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