Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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 therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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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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