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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
Irvin D. Yalom
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Irvin D. Yalom
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: June 13
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Existential Therapist
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Irvin David Yalom
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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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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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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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... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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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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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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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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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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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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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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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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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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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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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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