Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

خورشید، برای پیروزی عظیم یوشع بی حرکت ماند! آن افسانه است؟ مردم باستان، باور داشتند خورشید حرکت می کند و زمین بی حرکت است! اکنون می دانیم زمین دور خورشید می چرخد. همین خطا مدرکی است برای این که بگوییم...

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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.

Everything, every fact, bar none, has a cause, and we must understand that everything necessarily occurs.

مردم برای یافتن راه‌های پرهیز از آگاهی نسبت به مسئولیت، زرنگی و ذکاوت خستگی‌ناپذیری از خود نشان می‌دهند.

[D]o not mistake the appearance of efficiency for true effectiveness.

مرت فترة في حياتنا اقترب فيها أحدنا كثيرا من الأخر ولم يعد هناك شئ يعيق صداقتنا وإخوّتنا، ولم يكن يفصلنا إلا جسر مشاة صغير. عندما كنت على وشك تطأ بقدمك على الجسر سألتك هل تريد ان تعبر جسر المُشاة نحوي...

Obwohl uns die Physikalität des Todes zerstört, rettet uns die Idee des Todes.

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.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

Marriage a debt that is contracted in youth and paid in old age….

Credinta, oricat de pasionata, de pura, de arzatoare, nu spune absolut nimic despre realitatea existentei lui Dumnezeu

Sometimes death anxiety is dismissed as trivial in its universality. Who, after all, does not know and fear death? Yet it is one thing to know about death in general, to grit one's own teeth and stoke...

The dying man and the sixteen-year-old gazed at each other across the decades.

We should cherish things because they are true, not because they are old.

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

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

To live in despair because life is finite or because life has no higher purpose or embedded design is crass ingratitude.

Which

Düşünceler, duygularımızın gölgesidir; ama her zaman daha karanlık, daha boş ve daha sade.

Eternal recurrence means that every time you choose an action you must be willing to choose it for all eternity.