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

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

The more the therapist is able to tolerate the anxiety of not knowing, the less need there is for the therapist to embrace orthodoxy. — 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

Four major existential concerns - death, meaning in life, isolation, and freedom - play a crucial role in the inner life of every human being and — Irvin D. Yalom

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

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. — Irvin D. Yalom

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

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

Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment." "Your — 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

Sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past. — 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

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

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

Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see? — 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

A curious thought experiment ... Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally — 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

Living safely is dangerous. — Irvin D. Yalom

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. — Irvin D. Yalom

It's no great mystery. If no one will listen, it's only natural to shout! — Irvin D. Yalom

Don't argue: you will lose, and even if you win, you lose. — Irvin D. Yalom

Perhaps," said Nietzsche, "only by being a man does a man release the woman in woman. — Irvin D. Yalom

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

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. — Irvin D. Yalom

Have you ever noticed that the air you breathe in is always cooler than the air you breathe out? — Irvin D. Yalom

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

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing them into our own preferred ideas and gestalts... — Irvin D. Yalom

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

Every act is not necessarily a message about the relationship. — Irvin D. Yalom

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — 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

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

I'm looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires, — Irvin D. Yalom

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

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. — Irvin D. Yalom

As Nietzsche said, "If we have our own 'why' of life, we shall get along with any 'how. — Irvin D. Yalom

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else ... — Irvin D. Yalom

I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws. — Irvin D. Yalom

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

more commonly death anxiety surfaces in nightmares. A — Irvin D. Yalom

Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness - it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present. — Irvin D. Yalom

But surely," Breuer — Irvin D. Yalom

He was saying, fulfill yourself, realize your potential, live boldly and fully. Then, and only then, die without regret. — Irvin D. Yalom

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

I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story. — Irvin D. Yalom

Freedom means that one is responsible for one's own choices, actions, one's own life situation. Though — Irvin D. Yalom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated. — Irvin D. Yalom

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

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

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

mediating efforts, the — Irvin D. Yalom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived. — Irvin D. Yalom