Irvin Yalom

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«A person of high, rare mental gifts who is forced into a job which is merely useful is like a valuable vase decorated with the most beautiful painting and then used as a kitchen pot.»

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

«Only the wounded healer can truly heal.»

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

“Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.”

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

Effective therapy consists of an alternating sequence:evocation and experiencing of affect followed by analysis and integration of affect.

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

Mature love is loving, not being loved

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

"I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another"

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

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

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

"Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind."

[Irvin Yalom @YalomID]

“The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.”