When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual’s gaze from more painful thoughts.” — Irvin D. Yalom Distraction Copy Share Image
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“would you be willing to live this past year again and again for all eternity?” — Irvin D. Yalom Eternity Copy Share Image
I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it… — Irvin D. Yalom Goodwill Copy Share Image
“People fear contact with the afflicted because they wish not to be confronted with the death that awaits each of them.” — Irvin D. Yalom Death 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
“Do not pander, patronize, scheme, or strategize,” his instincts told him. “Simply go about your business in your usual professional manner.” “But” — Irvin D. Yalom Patronize Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Patience Copy Share Image
...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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
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 Adherence 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Existence Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
“keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one’s life; given the centrality… — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“Misanthropist’s manifesto: Do not tell a friend what your enemy ought not to know. Giving way neither to love nor hate is… — Irvin D. Yalom Character Copy Share Image
There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and… — Irvin D. Yalom Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Existential isolation, a third given, refers to the unbridgeable gap between self and others, a gap that exists even in the presence… — Irvin D. Yalom Isolation Copy Share Image
“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 Authentic life Copy Share Image
“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 Metaphor Copy Share Image
“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly… — Irvin D. Yalom Anxiety 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
“For one can never really be helped by another; one must find the strength to help oneself.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. — Irvin D. Yalom Awareness Copy Share Image
“think of sex as the vital antagonist to death—isn’t the orgasm the primal spark of life? I” — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?” — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom Education Copy Share Image
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“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 Grieving Copy Share Image
