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.
IRVIN D. YALOMI must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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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Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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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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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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