If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
IRVIN D. YALOMLook out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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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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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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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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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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.
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