Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
IRVIN D. YALOMDeath loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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 never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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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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