Mohammad Ahmadpour > Mohammad's Quotes

“Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.”
― Irvin Yalom

“To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

“The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else...”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

“I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?”
― Irvin Yalom, سپیده حبیب, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure

“To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you’ll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It’s to produce a creator.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

“I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy—I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. I hate to be love’s executioner.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner

“Ask yourself, 'Who are the secure ones, the comfortable, the eternally cheerful?' I'll tell you the answer: only those with dull vision-the common people and the children”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“More than death, one fears the utter isolation that accompanies it. We try to go through life two by two, but each one of us must die alone- no one can die our death with us or for us. The shunning of the dying by the living prefigures final absolute abandonment”
― Irvin Yalom, سپیده حبیب, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he’d spend several of these hours sharpening his ax.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy

“İnsanlar vedalaşırken genellikle olayın sürekliliğini inkar eden sözler dile getirmeyi severler. Birbirlerinden ayrılırken ‘Auf Wiedersehen’, yani tekrar görüşene kadar, derler. Yeni bir araya gelme planları yapmakta çok aceleci davranırlar, ama bunu unutmakta daha acelecidirler. Ben bu tür insanlardan değilim. Gerçeği söylemeyi tercih ederim ki gerçek de büyük bir ihtimalle bir daha karşılaşmayacak olduğumuzdur.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy

“انسان باید بیاموزد با دیگری ارتباط برقرار کند بی‌آنکه با بدل شدن به بخشی از او، به آرزوی فرار از تنهایی پروبال دهد، از سوی دیگر، باید بیاموزد با دیگری ارتباط برقرار کند بی‌آنکه او را تا سطح ابزاری برای دفاع در برابر تنهایی پایین بیاورد.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

“will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession