Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

Do not pander, patronize, scheme, or strategize, his instincts told him. Simply go about your business in your usual professional manner. But

[T]echnique has a different meaning for the novice than for the expert. One needs technique in learning to play the piano but eventually, if one is to make music, one must transcend learned technique...

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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.

Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to rejoice, and a dark and gloomy one when sorrow weighs upon us.

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...

Ask you to heal me of despair.

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...

اینشتین: راز نوآوری دانستنِ چگونگی پنهان ساختن منابع خود است

Yılın en yalnız zamanını yaşıyor olmalısınız. Diğer hastaların çoğu bu aralar Noel dolayısıyla ailelerinin yanına gidiyorlar. Belki de odaları boş görmenizin sebebi budur.

The really proper address between one man and another should be, instead of Sir, Monsieur,…my fellow sufferer. However strange this may sound, it accords with the facts, puts the other man in the most...

تا زمانی که فرد معتقد است دیگری یا نیرویی بیرونی مسئول مشکل یا ملال اوست، تعهد به تحول فردی چه معنایی دارد؟

Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii.

I had, once again, fallen prey to the grandiose belief that I can treat anyone. Swept along by hubris and by my curiosity, I had disregarded twenty years of evidence at the outset that Thelma was a po...

افلاطون: آیا از اشتیاق خود برای داشتن هرچه بیشتر ثروت، شهرت و احترام شرم نمی کنید؟ در حالی که برای اندیشیدن به خردمندی یا حقیقت یا بهترین حالت روحتان اهمیتی قائل نیستید

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

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...

آگاهی از مسئولیت یعنی آگاهی از اینکه خودمان سرنوشت، گرفتاری‌های زندگی، احساسات و درنتیجه رنج‌هایمان را پدید آورده‌ایم.

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.

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...

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

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