Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

We poor mortals, we fellow sufferers, are such victims of biology that we fill our lives with guilt about natural acts…and that we all have the goal of extricating ourselves from the thralldom of sex.

جاه و جلالی که صرف مذهب می شود ذهن انسان ها را با خشک اندیشی مسدود می کند

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Irvin David Yalom (; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, every-one in the first half of his time, comes to see the top side, but in the second half, the reverse side. The latter is not so bea...

Like you, I have often wondered why fears reign at night. After twenty years of such wondering, I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars—always there, but ob...

Si indrazneala cu care Nietzsche rostea lucrurile! Incredibil! Sa spui ca speranta e cel mai mare rau! Ca Dumnezeu a murit! Ca adevarul este o greseala fara de care nu putem trai! Ca dusmanii adevarul...

Trăiește cum trebuie și ai încredere că vei da celorlalți lucruri bune, chiar dacă tu nu vei afla niciodată asta.

İnsanlar vedalaşırken genellikle olayın sürekliliğini inkar eden sözler dile getirmeyi severler. Birbirlerinden ayrılırken ‘Auf Wiedersehen’, yani tekrar görüşene kadar, derler. Yeni bir araya gelme p...

The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else,

Bir dizi çarpıtıcı prizma bir başkasını tanımamızı engeller...Önce imge ve dil arasındaki engel var......Bir başkasını hiçbir zaman tamamen tanıyamayışımızın bir nedeni de neleri açığa vuracağımız kon...

آگاه شدن از این واقعیت که فرد متشکل از خودش است، هیچ مرجع تمام‌عیار خارجی‌ای در کار نیست و فرد معنایی دلبخواه به دنیا می‌بخشد، به این معنا خواهد بود که فرد به بی‌پایگی بنیادین خویش آگاهی می‌یابد.

Creating yourself is a source of great pride, but it also leads to a feeling of having no foundations. I’ve known many gifted children of immigrants who have a sense of being lilies growing in a swamp...

Why, you may ask, take on this unpleasant, frightening subject? Why stare into the sun? Why not follow the advice of the venerable dean of American psychiatry, Adolph Meyer, who, a century ago, cautio...

در برابر هر آری، یک نه هست. تصمیم‌گیری درباره یک چیز همیشه به معنای چشم‌پوشی از چیز دیگر است. هر راه چاره، تو را از سایر راه‌ها محروم می‌کند.

این رویاها نظر فروید را در این باره که عملکرد اولیه رویاها حفظ خواب است اثبات می کرد. در این نمونه، فکر وحشتناک سوزاندن جسد به چیزی ملایم تر و دلپذیرتر تبدیل شده است: چهره دوست داشتنی و جذاب خرس آتش ن...

Yes, Bento had one weak spot, and Simon had discovered it. Bento was in love with books—not only the reading of books but the possession of them.

ابتدا عشق، اکنون تنفر و عصبانیت. چقدر دلبستگی ها ناپایدار و متزلزل هستند. اگر می خواهی شکوفا شوی و پیشرفت کنی باید با تثبیت احساسات خود به چیزی تغییر ناپذیر، چیزی با پایداری ابدی بر امیال خود غلبه کنی

I had helped him understand that he had lost sight of his personal boundaries. It is natural, I had told him, that one should respond adversely to an attack on one’s central core—after all, in that si...

If we do not want to be a plaything in the hands of every rogue and the object of every fool’s ridicule, the first rule is to be reserved and inaccessible.

Nietzsche claimed that a philosopher’s system of thought always arises from his autobiography, and I believe that to be true for all therapists—in fact, for anyone who thinks about thought. At a confe...

آینده با آنچه در گذشته انجام یافته است با خلق و خوی جسمی و روانی، عاطفه ها، ترس ها، هدف ها، سرشت، عشقِ به خود و طرز تلقی ما از دیگران تعیین می شود