Irvin Yalom

«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.»

«Only the wounded healer can truly heal.»

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

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

Mature love is loving, not being loved

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

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

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