If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.
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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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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness.
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