Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
IRVIN D. YALOMSome piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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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.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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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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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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