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.
IRVIN D. YALOMLive right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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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.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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