To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively.
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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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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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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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