Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom

As Nietzsche said, “If we have our own ‘why’ of life, we shall get along with any ‘how.’”

The Buddhists advise living with death on your left shoulder;

have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.