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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written. — Irvin D. Yalom

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make. — Irvin Kershner

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art. — Nell Irvin Painter

I'm taking T.O., every day ... He gives me the whole football field. — Michael Irvin

More in love with desire than with the desired! — Irvin D. Yalom

We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom. — Irvin D. Yalom

Too often, we therapists neglect our personal relationships. Our work becomes our life. — Irvin D. Yalom

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them. — Irvin D. Yalom

How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing? — Irvin D. Yalom

It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself. — Irvin D. Yalom

One had to reach twenty-six to understand even in part the father one had. — Irvin Anthony

He who would be everything cannot be anything.) — Irvin D. Yalom

Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now. — Michael Irvin

Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway. — Irvin D. Yalom

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. — Irvin D. Yalom

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

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us. — Irvin D. Yalom

Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he'd spend several of these hours sharpening his ax. — Irvin D. Yalom

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance. — Irvin S. Cobb

Use of masturbation as a way of soothing yourself to ward off death anxiety so you can fall asleep. — Irvin D. Yalom

Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden. — Irvin D. Yalom

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer — Irvin D. Yalom

Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum. — Irvin D. Yalom

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. — Irvin D. Yalom

I submit that God has no wishes about how, or even if, we glorify Him. Allow me, then, Jacob, to love God in my own fashion. Franco's — Irvin D. Yalom

the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where — Irvin D. Yalom

My task as a therapist (not unlike that of a parent) is to make myself obsolete - to help a patient become his or her own mother and father — Irvin D. Yalom

That just seems to be the way we're built. — Irvin D. Yalom

I'm not ready for a committed relationship with anyone and that I have a ton of work to do on myself. — Irvin D. Yalom

would you be willing to live this past year again and again for all eternity? — Irvin D. Yalom

I'm listening. Sometimes I see better with closed eyes. — Irvin D. Yalom

I should have become an "I" before I became a "we". — Irvin D. Yalom

As a general rule, the less one's sense of life fulfillment, the greater one's death anxiety. — Irvin D. Yalom

Mature love is loving, not being loved. — Irvin D. Yalom

Look out the other's window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it. — Irvin D. Yalom

The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. — Irvin D. Yalom

Look up, get up and don't ever give up. — Michael Irvin

I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars
always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight. — Irvin D. Yalom

Every single person in the world is fundamentally alone. It's hard, but that's the way it is, and we have to face it. — Irvin D. Yalom

Should we not create - should we not become - before we reproduce? Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the lower. — Irvin D. Yalom

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. — Irvin S. Cobb

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for. — Nell Irvin Painter

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. — Irvin S. Cobb

Absolutely, bring any kind of carrot cake you wish. — Irvin D. Yalom

One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety. — Irvin D. Yalom

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face. — Irvin Kershner

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom. — Jason Clarke

Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window — Irvin D. Yalom

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do. — Irvin D. Yalom

We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard. — Michael Irvin

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. — Irvin D. Yalom

Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a "falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person. Though — Irvin D. Yalom

You are not a cow, and I am no apostle of cud chewing. — Irvin D. Yalom

This world is supposed to have been made by a God? No, much better by a devil! — Irvin D. Yalom

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old. — Irvin Kershner

Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we're not animal trainers!" "Yes, — Irvin D. Yalom

Why squander all that love on a phantasm when there seems too little love to go around on Earth as it is? Better — Irvin D. Yalom

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible. — Irvin D. Yalom

I can attack a man's weakness and beat him. Or I can attack a man's strengths and break him. — Michael Irvin

If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting. — Irvin D. Yalom

Hair and hole, horn and teeth - hedgehog, walrus, ape, Josef Breuer. He — Irvin D. Yalom

Love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual's gaze from more painful thoughts. — Irvin D. Yalom

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying. — Nell Irvin Painter

What have your scholarly investigations shown you?" No — Irvin D. Yalom

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. — Monte Irvin

I'm gonna pray for him. — Bruce Irvin

The weak, the sinful, the uncertain - they are most often the ones called. — Kelly Irvin

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation. — Irvin S. Cobb

mediating efforts, the — Irvin D. Yalom

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! — Irvin D. Yalom

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. — Irvin D. Yalom

Fame, for example, consists of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life as others wish. — Irvin D. Yalom

So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim? — Irvin D. Yalom

I feel your words on my lips
and feel your mood in my hips — Maquita Donyel Irvin

Therapy uncovered deep roots of these everyday problems - roots stretching down to the bedrock of existence. I — Irvin D. Yalom

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If it weren't for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born. — Irvin D. Yalom

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him. — Irvin S. Cobb

I'm no superman. — Michael Irvin

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable. — Irvin Kershner

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it. — Irvin D. Yalom

It's the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals - my professional rosary. — Irvin D. Yalom

I remain convinced that a therapist's judicious self-disclosure facilitates the course of therapy. Love's — Irvin D. Yalom

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. — Irvin S. Cobb

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) — Irvin D. Yalom

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone. — Irvin D. Yalom

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean. — Michael Irvin

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me. — Irvin Kershner

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson. — Monte Irvin

If he wins a fourth Super Bowl, he's the greatest ever in my book. — Michael Irvin

I am going to do everything I can to clear my name. — Michael Irvin

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. — Irvin D. Yalom

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about. — Irvin Kershner

One must learn to live with the living before one can learn to live with the dead. — Irvin D. Yalom

One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself. — Irvin D. Yalom

I am the original ... Those are my disciples. — Michael Irvin

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

John is a man of his word. And so am I. — Bruce Irvin