Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

Няма ли накрая да стигнем до Бог – последната грешка в погрешното търсене на върховната истина?

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

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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.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you will always find despair.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you will always find despair. I

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

Ask you to heal me of despair.

It’s the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals—my professional rosary.

Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment. Your

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...

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.

اینشتین: راز نوآوری دانستنِ چگونگی پنهان ساختن منابع خود است

در درون هر فرد ترسی اساسی و بدوی هست که گاه به شکل ترس از زندگی و گاه به شکل ترس از مرگ رخ می‌نماید.

…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born.

مذهب پر از داستان است، داستان موردعلاقه من درباره کافری است که سمت خاخام هیلل می‌رود و به او می‌گوید اگر خاخام بتواند روی یک پا بایستد و کل تورات را آموزش بدهد، به یهودیت می‌پیوندد، هیلیل روی یک پا می...

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...

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

Jis keistas mišrūnas- protingas, bet aklas, nuoširdus, bet per daug suktas

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

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

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...