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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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Live your life to the fullest and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.
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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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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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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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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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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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