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... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Irvin D. Yalom

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Irvin D. Yalom
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: June 13
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Existential Therapist
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Irvin David Yalom
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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 path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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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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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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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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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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Live your life to the fullest and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.
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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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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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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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