All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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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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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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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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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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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