To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
IRVIN D. YALOMNot to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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