Only 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.
IRVIN D. YALOMSince then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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