If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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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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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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