Natali Dimitrova

“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

“Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a little in mourning for that other thing.”
― Kristin Newman, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

“Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Winnicott also cites the hostile lullabies mothers sing to babies, who fortunately do not understand the words. For example:   Rockabye, Baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy