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 one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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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 people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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