Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
IRVIN D. YALOMWhen people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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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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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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