To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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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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