If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
IRVIN D. YALOMTo care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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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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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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