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)
IRVIN D. YALOMNot to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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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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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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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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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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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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A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche’s message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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