Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
IRVIN D. YALOMI thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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