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. YALOMTo care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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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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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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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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