The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
IRVIN D. YALOMHidden 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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Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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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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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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