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.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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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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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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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