Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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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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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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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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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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