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Inspirational Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
- Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
- To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.
- Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
- Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
- If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
- Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
- The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
- Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
- Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
- Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
- To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
- The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else...
- ...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento