Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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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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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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