Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
IRVIN D. YALOMLife as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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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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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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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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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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