My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
IRVIN D. YALOMDoes a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
More Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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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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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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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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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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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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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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