Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it. — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Rollo May quipped that anxiety about nothing tries to become anxiety about something. In other words, anxiety about nothingness quickly attaches itself… — Irvin D. Yalom Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the real therapy occurred at the deathbed scene, when they moved into honesty with the revelation that they were fellow travelers,… — Irvin D. Yalom Deathbed Copy Share Image
I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they… — Irvin D. Yalom Anxious Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.” — Irvin D. Yalom Goals Copy Share Image
One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many… — Irvin D. Yalom Approach Copy Share Image
“We poor mortals, we fellow sufferers, are such victims of biology that we fill our lives with guilt about natural acts…and that… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“When we wake discouraged in the middle of the night, enemies that we had defeated long ago come back to haunt us.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he… — Irvin D. Yalom Peace Copy Share Image
“The same point is made by the Hasidic Rabbi, Susya, who shortly before his death said, "When I get to heaven they… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“Being empathic is so much a part of everyday discourse—popular singers warble platitudes about being in the other’s skin, walking in the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book… — Irvin D. Yalom Book Copy Share Image
“come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich,… — Irvin D. Yalom Human spirit Copy Share Image
“The idea of using current distortions to re-create the past was part of an old, now abandoned, vision of the therapist as… — Irvin D. Yalom Psychotherapy Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality… — Irvin D. Yalom Absolute power Copy Share Image
“Ubijeđen sam da su, u tim zanosima prvih susreta, Dan i žena pogrešno tumačili ono što u vidjeli jedno u drugom. Svako… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to… — Irvin D. Yalom Emotion Copy Share Image
“How shall we live? How to face our mortality? How to live with the knowledge that we are simply life forms, thrown… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he’d spend several of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“He was saying, fulfill yourself, realize your potential, live boldly and fully. Then, and only then, die without regret.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety. — Irvin D. Yalom Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago… — Irvin D. Yalom Books Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself,… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“ALAS, IF ALL HUMANS WERE WISE AND HAD MORE GOOD WILL THE WORLD WOULD BE A PARADISE NOW IT IS MOSTLY A… — Irvin D. Yalom Hell Copy Share Image
“Visele sunt ca un mister incantator, care implora sa fie inteles[...]Visele sunt doar deseuri intamplatoare, excretii nocturne ale mintii” — Irvin D. Yalom Amor Copy Share Image
“It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about… — Irvin D. Yalom Dreams Copy Share Image
“If we do not want to be a plaything in the hands of every rogue and the object of every fool’s ridicule,… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“if we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility—that is, to apprehend how they themselves… — Irvin D. Yalom Change Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. — Irvin D. Yalom Credo Copy Share Image
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a… — Irvin D. Yalom Anxiety Copy Share Image
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you… — Irvin D. Yalom Belief Copy Share Image
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes.… — Irvin D. Yalom Ambition Copy Share Image
As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends… — Irvin D. Yalom Age Copy Share Image
“The true end of the whole love story, though the parties concerned are unaware of it, is that a particular child may… — Irvin D. Yalom Love Copy Share Image
“The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they… — Irvin D. Yalom Psychotherapy Copy Share Image
One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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