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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

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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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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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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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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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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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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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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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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... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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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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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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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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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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