373 Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

Imagine a continuum of self-revealing. At one pole, which we'll call 'one,' is the safestrevealing, cocktail party stuff; and at the other pole, call it 'ten,' would be the deepest and riskiest revealing you can possibly imagine".

Schopenhauer said that after death we will be what we were before our birth and then proceeded to prove the impossibility of therebeing more than one kind of nothingness.

People like people who are interested in them.

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ينما أخذ يفكر في تلكَ الفتاة الشابة المستغرقة في التأمل غمرته مشاعر أرق_ فيض من الشفقة لها و لجميع أخوانه في البشرية ضحايا ذلكَ المنعطف الفظيع من التطور الذي يمنح الوعي الذاتي ،لكنه لا يمنح الأجهزة التنفسية القدرة على مواجهة الم الوجود العابر و هكذا على مر سنين ، قرون ، الالفيات دأبنا بلا هوادة على وضع ذرائع بديلة لإنكار قدراتنا المحدودة لكن هل يمكننا ؟؟؟ هل يمكن لأي منا أن نتوقف عن البحث عن قوة أعلى يمكننا أن نندمج و نوجد فيها الى الابد .

Nu numai ca fictiunea isi are propriul adevar, dar orice povestire, oricat de „adevarata”, este o minciuna pentru ca omite atat de multe.

Not to take possession of your life plan is let your existence be an accident.

Why does the same book elicit such a range of responses? There must be something in the particular reader that leaps out to embrace the book. His life, his psychology, his image of himself. There must be something lurking deep in the mind—or, as this Freud says, the unconscious—that causes a particular reader to fall in love with a particular writer.

Мечтая за любов, която е повече от това двама души да изпитват нужда да се притежават... Мечтая за любов, в която двама души споделят една обща страст в търсенето на по-висшата истина. Може би не трябва да го наричам любов. Може би истинското му име е приятелство.