Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.

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...

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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.

Come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the gr...

This world is supposed to have been made by a God? No, much better by a devil!

Why squander all that love on a phantasm when there seems too little love to go around on Earth as it is? Better

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...

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

Schopenhauer credea că un om cu putere sau virtute interioară nu va cere nimic de la ceilalți; un astfel de om își este suficient.

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...

I have heard many dying patients remark that the most awful thing about dying is that it must be done alone. Yet, even at the point of death, the willingness of another to be fully present may penetra...

Have patience with everything unresolved and try to love the questions themselves. I would add: Try to love the questioners as well.

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.

Става дума за това, че свръхчувствителността, както я нарекохте, не е нежелана. Тя е необходима за работата ми. Аз искам да съм чувствителен. Не бих искал да се лиша от нито една част от вътрешните си...

دانستن و عمل نکردن با ندانستن یکی است.

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'll always find despair.

A te dezvalui altcuiva este preludiul tradarii iar tradarea te imbolnaveste

معنای «شکیبا» را به یاد بیاور! معنای آن این است که ما «باید» در برابر باورهای دیگران، حتی اگر آنها را غیرمنطقی می انگاریم شکیبا باشیم

مسئولیت‌پذیری موجب می‌شود فرد اعتقادش به وجود نجات‌دهنده‌ی غایی را کنار بگذارد و این کار برای کسی که جهان‌بینی‌اش را حول چنین اعتقادی استوار کرده، بسیار دشوار است.

Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote their careers to ever greater nosological precision. Others, and among them I include myself, marvel that anyone can take diagnosis seriously, t...