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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.
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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.
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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 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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. 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. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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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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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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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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