Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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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 creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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