Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
IRVIN D. YALOMSince then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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