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More in love with desire than with the desired!
— Irvin D. Yalom
We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Too often, we therapists neglect our personal relationships. Our work becomes our life.
— Irvin D. Yalom
The more the therapist is able to tolerate the anxiety of not knowing, the less need there is for the therapist to embrace orthodoxy.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
— Irvin D. Yalom
How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?
— Irvin D. Yalom
Four major existential concerns - death, meaning in life, isolation, and freedom - play a crucial role in the inner life of every human being and
— Irvin D. Yalom
It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself.
— Irvin D. Yalom
He who would be everything cannot be anything.)
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Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway.
— Irvin D. Yalom
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment." "Your
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness - domains soaked in anxiety.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he'd spend several of these hours sharpening his ax.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Use of masturbation as a way of soothing yourself to ward off death anxiety so you can fall asleep.
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Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
— Irvin D. Yalom
I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?
— Irvin D. Yalom
Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum.
— Irvin D. Yalom
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
— Irvin D. Yalom
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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I submit that God has no wishes about how, or even if, we glorify Him. Allow me, then, Jacob, to love God in my own fashion. Franco's
— Irvin D. Yalom
the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where
— Irvin D. Yalom
My task as a therapist (not unlike that of a parent) is to make myself obsolete - to help a patient become his or her own mother and father
— Irvin D. Yalom
That just seems to be the way we're built.
— Irvin D. Yalom
I'm not ready for a committed relationship with anyone and that I have a ton of work to do on myself.
— Irvin D. Yalom
I'm listening. Sometimes I see better with closed eyes.
— Irvin D. Yalom
I should have become an "I" before I became a "we".
— Irvin D. Yalom
As a general rule, the less one's sense of life fulfillment, the greater one's death anxiety.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Mature love is loving, not being loved.
— Irvin D. Yalom
The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Living safely is dangerous.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Don't argue: you will lose, and even if you win, you lose.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Perhaps," said Nietzsche, "only by being a man does a man release the woman in woman.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Fame, for example, consists of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life as others wish.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Have you ever noticed that the air you breathe in is always cooler than the air you breathe out?
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Love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual's gaze from more painful thoughts.
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Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing them into our own preferred ideas and gestalts...
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One thing he resolved was not to make that one good year a bad year by grieving that it was not more than
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Every act is not necessarily a message about the relationship.
— Irvin D. Yalom
So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim?
— Irvin D. Yalom
Therapy uncovered deep roots of these everyday problems - roots stretching down to the bedrock of existence. I
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I'm looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires,
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
— Irvin D. Yalom
As Nietzsche said, "If we have our own 'why' of life, we shall get along with any 'how.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else ...
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Do not pander, patronize, scheme, or strategize," his instincts told him. "Simply go about your business in your usual professional manner." "But
— Irvin D. Yalom
more commonly death anxiety surfaces in nightmares. A
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Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness - it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present.
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But surely," Breuer
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He was saying, fulfill yourself, realize your potential, live boldly and fully. Then, and only then, die without regret.
— Irvin D. Yalom
If it weren't for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born.
— Irvin D. Yalom
I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Freedom means that one is responsible for one's own choices, actions, one's own life situation. Though
— Irvin D. Yalom
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. Yalom
It's the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals - my professional rosary.
— Irvin D. Yalom
To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.
— Irvin D. Yalom
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Should we not create - should we not become - before we reproduce? Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the lower.
— Irvin D. Yalom
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the starsalways there, but obscured by the glare of daylight. — Irvin D. Yalom
Every single person in the world is fundamentally alone. It's hard, but that's the way it is, and we have to face it.
— Irvin D. Yalom
You are not a cow, and I am no apostle of cud chewing.
— Irvin D. Yalom
If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated.
— Irvin D. Yalom
To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Why squander all that love on a phantasm when there seems too little love to go around on Earth as it is? Better
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Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we're not animal trainers!" "Yes,
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What have your scholarly investigations shown you?" No
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mediating efforts, the
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Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a "falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person. Though
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window
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The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.
— Jason Clarke
I remain convinced that a therapist's judicious self-disclosure facilitates the course of therapy. Love's
— Irvin D. Yalom
Absolutely, bring any kind of carrot cake you wish.
— Irvin D. Yalom
