Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

چطور می توان مردی را به چنگ آورد؟سئله ساده ایه، فقط باید به چشمان یک مرد خیره شد و چند ثانیه صبر کرد. همین!

به عقیده فرانکل، معضل انسان امروزی این است که دیگر غریزه و یا سنت نیست که به او می‌گوید باید چه کند. حتی دیگر خودش هم نمی‌داند چه می‌خواهد بکند و فقط دو واکنش رفتاری نسبت به این بحران ارزش دارد، یا هم...

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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.

یه مرد خوش قیافه فقیر با 1دلار و 50سنت برات یه کاپوچینو می خره.

Sterven is echter de eenzaamste gebeurtenis van het leven. We worden er niet alleen door van anderen afgescheiden, maar daarnaast stelt het ons ook bloot aan een nog angstaanjagender vorm van eenzaamh...

Tabii acı çekeceksin, görmenin bedelidir bu. Tabii için korkuyla dolacak, yaşamak demek tehlike içinde olmak demektir. Büyümek zordur!! diye haykırmıştı. Sen bir inek değilsin, ben de gevişgetirenleri...

Tanrıyı öldürürseniz, onun tapınağına sığınmaktan da vazgeçmek, orayı terk etmek zorundasınız!

That was the first important discovery I made about Betty: she was desperately isolated, and she survived this isolation only by virtue of the sustaining myth that her intimate life was being lived el...

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality, all else being the play of thought. But we could just as well call it our great...

The human being either asserts autonomy by heroic self-assertion or seeks safety through fusing with a superior force: that is, one either emerges or merges, separates or embeds. One becomes one’s own...

هیچ انسانی نیست که همیشه کامیاب شود و همیشه بیافریند، هیچ انسانی نیست که مدام در تلاش‌هایش موفق باشد، ولی حرکت در مسیر درست حتی اگر به کامیابی منجر نشود، شاید معنای زندگی و تنها پاسخ اگزیستانسیال ممکن...

The most common secret is a deep conviction of basic inadequacy - a feeling that one is basically incompetent, that one bluffs one's way through life. Next in frequency is a deep sense of interpersona...

The same point is made by the Hasidic Rabbi, Susya, who shortly before his death said, When I get to heaven they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses?' Instead they will ask 'Why were you not Susy...

The second, alternatives exclude, is an important key to understanding why decision is difficult. Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating...

Therapists have a dual role: they must both observe and participate in the lives of their patients. As observer, one must be sufficiently objective to provide necessary rudimentary guidance to the pat...

Пациенты, как и все люди, извлекают пользу только из тех истин, которые они открывают сами.

There is one true property of romantic love: it never stays - evanescence is a part of the nature of an infatuated love state. But be careful trying to rush its demise. Don't try to joust with love an...

There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I as...

This book deals with four ultimate concerns: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. The individual's confrontation with each of these facts of life constitutes the content of the existential...

Thought, in and of itself, has no external consequences-although it may be an indispensable overture to action: one may, for example, plan, rehearse, or muster the resolve for action. Action extends o...

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