Irvin D. Yalom

“Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Mylėti moterį- tai nekęsti gyvenimo!”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Living safely is dangerous.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Knowledge is limited, only stupidity is unlimited.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Ümitsizlik özfarkındalık uğruna ödenen bedeldir.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

— Irvin D. Yalom

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual’s gaze from more painful thoughts.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Hair and hole, horn and teeth—hedgehog, walrus, ape, Josef Breuer. He”

— Irvin D. Yalom

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Heightened sexuality is a common response to confrontation with death.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“One thing he resolved was not to make that one good year a bad year by grieving that it was not more…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Schopenhauer and Spinoza distilled, condensed, and funneled through the pupil, along the optic nerve, and directly into our occipital lobes. I’d love…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of…

— Irvin D. Yalom

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The establishment of an authentic relationship with patients, by its very nature, demands that we forego the power of the triumvirate of…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we’re not animal trainers!” “Yes,”

— Irvin D. Yalom

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“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

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“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

“They are part of the slave mentality artfully engineered by priestly propaganda. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one’s mid-life crisis, to the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“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

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

“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically…

— Irvin D. Yalom

You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Why, you may ask, take on this unpleasant, frightening subject? Why stare into the sun? Why not follow the advice of the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire…

— Irvin D. Yalom

If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“A great many of our patients have conflicts in the realm of intimacy, and obtain help in therapy sheerly through experiencing an…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“When, on a sea voyage, the ship is brought to anchor, you go out to fetch water and gather a few roots…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust…

— Irvin D. Yalom