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.
IRVIN D. YALOMNever take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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