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Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.
— Nell Irvin Painter
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
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
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
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
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
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 starsalways 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
What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.
— Nell Irvin Painter
Absolutely, bring any kind of carrot cake you wish.
— Irvin D. Yalom
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
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
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
I'm gonna pray for him.
— Bruce Irvin
mediating efforts, the
— 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 lipsand 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
But surely," Breuer
— 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
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
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
I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.
— Michael Irvin
I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
— Irvin Kershner
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
— Irvin D. Yalom
I am the original ... Those are my disciples.
— Michael Irvin
John is a man of his word. And so am I.
— Bruce Irvin