… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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)
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Since 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.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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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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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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