My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
IRVIN D. YALOMReality 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.
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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When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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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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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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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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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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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 death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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