To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOMLife is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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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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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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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 more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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