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
“Everything, every fact, bar none, has a cause, and we must understand that everything necessarily occurs.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us. — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
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
“Some cannot loosen their own chains yet can nonetheless liberate their friends. —Nietzsche” — Irvin D. Yalom Friendship Copy Share Image
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“But you, like me, have good eyes. You looked too far into life. You saw that it was futile to reach wrong… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Should we not create—should we not become—before we reproduce? Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the… — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is… — Irvin D. Yalom Irrationality Copy Share Image
“As long as he denies his own agency, real change is unlikely because his attention will be directed toward changing his environment… — Irvin D. Yalom Change Copy Share Image
“Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their… — Irvin D. Yalom Doctor Copy Share Image
“Some people are wish-blocked, knowing neither what they feel nor what they want. Without opinions, without impulses, without inclinations, they become parasites… — Irvin D. Yalom Desire Copy Share Image
“How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.” — Irvin D. Yalom Illusion Copy Share Image
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Imajte na umu, upade Niče, da sam naslijedio izrazito senzibilan nervni sistem. To znam na osnovu duboke osjetljivosti na muziku i umjetnost.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“One’s efforts to escape isolation can sabotage one’s relationships with other people. Many a friendship or marriage has failed because, instead of… — Irvin D. Yalom Friendship Copy Share Image
“Humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the requisite psychological equipment to deal with… — Irvin D. Yalom Evolution Copy Share Image
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely… — Irvin D. Yalom Conflict Copy Share Image
“I believe "technique" is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist's unique encounter with the patient. [E]very course of therapy consists of… — Irvin D. Yalom Patience Copy Share Image
“Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, every-one in the first half of his time, comes to… — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom… — Irvin D. Yalom Death 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
“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
“One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety. Fusion eradicates anxiety in a radical fashion—by eliminating self-awareness. The… — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back… — Irvin D. Yalom Awareness Copy Share Image
“In the first place a man never is happy but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Every breath we draw wards off the death that constantly impinges on us…. Ultimately death must triumph, for by birth it has… — Irvin D. Yalom Breath Copy Share Image
“We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning.… — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“Work, worry, toil and trouble are certainly the lot of almost all throughout their lives. But if all desires were fulfilled as… — Irvin D. Yalom Boredom Copy Share Image
“{B]eware of empty compliments - make your support as incisive as your feedback or interpretations.” — Irvin D. Yalom Compliments Copy Share Image
... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past. — Irvin D. Yalom Giving Copy Share Image
To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible. — Irvin D. Yalom Care Copy Share Image
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. — Irvin D. Yalom Accident Copy Share Image
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. — Irvin D. Yalom After death Copy Share Image
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