He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
IRVIN D. YALOMMirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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