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.
IRVIN D. YALOM… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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