We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
IRVIN D. YALOMLife is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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