If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
IRVIN D. YALOM… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Since 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.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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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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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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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
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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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