If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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 drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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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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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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