Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
IRVIN D. YALOMLive right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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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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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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