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.
IRVIN D. YALOMTherapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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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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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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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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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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