Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that Earth was not the center about which all celestial bod...

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, t...

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?

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust beautifully describes: We pack the physical outline of the crea...

Algumas vezes eu imaginava o sangue enchendo um copo descartável. Eu podia escutar cada esguicho batendo contra as paredes enceradas do copo. Talvez 100 esguichos enchessem o copo; seriam apenas 50 se...

Ο Μπρόιερ προσπάθησε να αποτινάξει το θάνατο απ' το μυαλό του. Μουρμούρισε το αγαπημένο του ξόρκι, τη φράση του Λουκρητίου: «Όπου είναι ο θάνατος, εγώ δεν είμαι. Όπου είμαι εγώ, ο θάνατος δεν είναι. Γ...

The last gift a parent can give to children is to teach them, through example, how to face death with equanimity.

I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don’t want to be just another patient. I wanted to be special. I want to be something, anything....

Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by so...

İnsan dostunu düşmanından daha zor affediyor.

As a general rule, the less one’s sense of life fulfillment, the greater one’s death anxiety.

Toda mi vida se ha convertido en un viaje y empiezo a creer que mi único hogar, el único lugar familiar al que siempre regreso, es mi enfermedad.

Am invatat in munca mea, ca se tem cel mai mult de moarte cei care se apropie de ea avand prea multa viata netraita in ei. Cel mai bine este sa ne folosim toata viata. Sa nu-i lasam mortii decat drojd...

Confruntarea cu moartea iminenta poate sa propulseze omul in intelepciune si la o noua profunzime a existentei.

Caracterul inseamna destin. [...]Caracterul, singur, este insuficient pentru profetii. Exista un alt ingredient fundamental, impredictibil. Cum sa-i spunem? Noroc? Sansa? Intamplarea de a te afla la l...

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

In romanul „Grednel, John Gardner vorbeste despre un om intelept care isi sintetizeaza meditatiile asupra misterelor vietii in doua postulate simple Lucrurile pier incet, alternativele exclud. [...] C...

Nadajduiesc la o lume viitoare fara religii, o lume cu o religie universala, in care toata lumea isi foloseste ratiunea pentru a-l cunoaste si a-l slavi pe Dumnezeu. -Asta inseamna ca doresti disparit...

Will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed.

How shall we live? How to face our mortality? How to live with the knowledge that we are simply life forms, thrown into an indifferent universe, with no preordained purpose?