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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Irvin D. Yalom
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Irvin D. Yalom
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: June 13
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Irvin David Yalom
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you're not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Live your life to the fullest and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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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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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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