Irvin D. Yalom quote: "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?"

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
IRVIN D. YALOM

I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have jus...
IRVIN D. YALOM

With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this w...
IRVIN D. YALOM

From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with...
IRVIN D. YALOM

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
IRVIN D. YALOM

During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neig...
IRVIN D. YALOM

We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations o...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique st...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the...
IRVIN D. YALOM

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility,...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's ve...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave e...
IRVIN D. YALOM

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
IRVIN D. YALOM

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
IRVIN D. YALOM

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work ...
IRVIN D. YALOM

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to pro...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find desp...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
IRVIN D. YALOM

Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him the...
IRVIN D. YALOM

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been fo...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing ...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the re...
IRVIN D. YALOM

The life of our bodies is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever deferred death…Every breath w...
IRVIN D. YALOM

How shall we live? How to face our mortality? How to live with the knowledge that we are simply life...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, every-one in the first half of his...
IRVIN D. YALOM

When, on a sea voyage, the ship is brought to anchor, you go out to fetch water and gather a few roo...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Philosophy is a high mountain road…an isolated road and becomes even more desolate the higher we a...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my fir...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the an...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont...
IRVIN D. YALOM

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

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when...
IRVIN D. YALOM

One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety.
IRVIN D. YALOM

It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I don't see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classi...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its ince...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and bei...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the m...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is someth...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I think there's no greater healing power than music.
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic t...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, '...
IRVIN KERSHNER

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
IRVIN KERSHNER

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the ne...
IRVIN KERSHNER

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
IRVIN KERSHNER

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feeli...
IRVIN KERSHNER

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn'...
IRVIN KERSHNER

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a perso...
MONTE IRVIN

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
IRVIN KERSHNER

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected m...
IRVIN KERSHNER

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always to...
MONTE IRVIN

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories wit...
MICHAEL IRVIN

My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome....
MICHAEL IRVIN

Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than whe...
MONTE IRVIN

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a p...
MONTE IRVIN

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie ...
MONTE IRVIN

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restauran...
MONTE IRVIN

I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the C...
MICHAEL IRVIN

A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new ...
MONTE IRVIN

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? ...
MONTE IRVIN

We've got insurance. That'll help.
BOB IRVIN

Rivers, streams and lakes are measurably cleaner than they were before the Clean Water Act, but we s...
BOB IRVIN

Mr. Pombo has spent much of his career criticizing the Endangered Species Act for its failure to get...
BOB IRVIN

They're really looking for themselves right now.
BOB IRVIN

It looks empty right now.
BOB IRVIN

It just gives you something to play for. It just gives you that extra boost.
BOB IRVIN

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love th...
MICHAEL IRVIN

Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "I...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, '...
MONTE IRVIN

I am the original, ... Those are my disciples.
MICHAEL IRVIN

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.
MONTE IRVIN

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really ...
MONTE IRVIN

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Jos...
MONTE IRVIN

The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a l...
MONTE IRVIN

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on ou...
MONTE IRVIN

Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!

Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Put your instrument into the hands of your Art and never your Art into the hands of your instrument!
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Teach we must, for we owe all that we are to all those who have been and all that we have to those w...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!

Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Do it right the first time, because "Practice makes PERMANENT!"
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and h...
MONTE IRVIN

Carver did a nice job on the offensive boards early.
DEXTER IRVIN

I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way ...
MICHAEL IRVIN

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me....
MICHAEL IRVIN

I said it to Drew in my brash, young, ignorant way, I don't know who it is know, but I know who will...
MICHAEL IRVIN

I'm surprised the New England Patriots didn't take the decision out of his hands. As soon as this th...
MICHAEL IRVIN

I am not a player anymore.
MICHAEL IRVIN

Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man.
MICHAEL IRVIN

There's no existing scenario that has any time frame connected to it.
DAN IRVIN

In a few days they are on the walls of the recipients, mementos of a once-in-a-lifetime visit to the...
IRVIN MOLOTSKY

Did you see that touchdown dance he did? I stood up and tried to do it while he was doing it.
MICHAEL IRVIN

I thought Jessica and Lauren did an outstanding job defensively on Wallace.
DEXTER IRVIN

We're going to maybe schedule more games in Idaho for Cora. She stepped in and did a nice job.
DEXTER IRVIN

I think we just assumed that Snow wasn't going to come out and play as hard as they did. By halftime...
DEXTER IRVIN

I was proud of the way our girls got out there at the beginning of the game. They really came out wi...
DEXTER IRVIN

It wasn't a matter of effort. We have to win once in a while to keep their enthusiasm going. Tomorro...
DEXTER IRVIN

We're looking forward to another shot at CSI.
DEXTER IRVIN

I thought Janelle played a good game and we got production from people we hadn't gotten much from be...
DEXTER IRVIN

Our execution was good and we did some other things well.
DEXTER IRVIN

Obviously we've got some work to do. We make our free throws, we win by 10.
DEXTER IRVIN

I think we all sat in our hotel rooms (after the semifinal) and sulked. Once we got in the locker ro...
CORRY IRVIN

I thought it was better for us not to give them a chance. I just didn't think we needed to play defe...
CORRY IRVIN

It was one of our goals, to start out strong and start quick.
CORRY IRVIN

Overall, I was happy with our performance.
CORRY IRVIN

It's something we've surely got our eyes on.
DAN IRVIN

To this point, they really have worked side by side.
DAN IRVIN

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I ...
MONTE IRVIN

Unfortunately, these restrictions must be mandatory because of the extreme deterioration of this wat...
JAMES IRVIN

It is needed now. It is one of the top priorities the county is putting money into.
JAMES IRVIN

We expected to see Palm Beach, Broward and Dade schools coming to the museum. But we're getting scho...
IRVIN LIPPMAN

I did not predict the full range of creativity.
IRVIN LIPPMAN

There were many museums competing for this show, so there was a bit of 'who you know' involved in ou...
IRVIN LIPPMAN

The staircase will remain as a permanent work of art.
IRVIN LIPPMAN

They have to start changing the minds of the South African fans now for the 2010 World Cup.
IRVIN KHOZA

The parties have agreed that the planning of the infrastructure will be continued.
IRVIN KHOZA

I think the mayor is comfortable right now that the city will not be bankrupt.
IRVIN KHOZA

I'm constantly amazed at the courage of young children to stand up in front of a large crowd and per...
SANDRA IRVIN

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
IRVIN S. COBB

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual sho...
IRVIN S. COBB

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
IRVIN S. COBB

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
IRVIN S. COBB

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

Fantasy like thought that no man could rain
Just let her reign
Run wild with her unafraid<...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack...
IRVIN S. COBB

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
IRVIN S. COBB

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
IRVIN S. COBB

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
IRVIN S. COBB

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
IRVIN S. COBB

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
IRVIN S. COBB

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
IRVIN S. COBB

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

She was rare, few and far between
She suspected he would be as well
And the thought of two...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep

How did we ...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

I feel your words on my lips
and feel your mood in my hips
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

Everything is only all right when we're onstage.
IRVIN MAYFIELD SR

This is something we're not going to be able to heal from, as a city, for a long time.
IRVIN MAYFIELD SR

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Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion ...
D. D. FIELD

Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine...
D. D. WILLIAMS

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 In short: in all his ways and walks, whether as touch...
D. D. WILLIAMS

It is very easy to say I MISS YOU, but very difficult to express how much I MISS YOU………..
SARVESH MURTHI .D .D

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
MIKE D

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury...
MIKE D

We never set out to be superstars.
MIKE D

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
MIKE D

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
MIKE D

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
MIKE D

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.
MIKE D

Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to pres...
MIKE D

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint...
MIKE D

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
MIKE D

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
MIKE D

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-found...
MIKE D

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what w...
MIKE D

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D

We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what...
MIKE D

I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a...
MIKE D

Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all t...
MIKE D

I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
MIKE D

Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
MIKE D

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen a...
MIKE D

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. H...
MIKE D

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
MIKE D

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
MIKE D

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ...
CHUCK D

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe...
CHUCK D

Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
MIKE D

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess...
CHUCK D

Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
CHUCK D

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neig...
MIKE D

Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need ...
MIKE D

We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like ev...
MIKE D

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp ...
CHUCK D

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you t...
MIKE D

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel...
CHUCK D

I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I...
PAULY D

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of tim...
CHUCK D

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatle...
CHUCK D

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being ...
CHUCK D

May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing...
D. SIMONE

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.
TENACIOUS D

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families di...
MIKE D

Mr. Philippe Zdar is a little bit like the uncle of the whole Daft Punk-Phoenix-Air thing in Paris a...
MIKE D

What I want from you is simple. I want today only.

If it’s laughter, I want it. If it�...
D. LOVE

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 D. Yalom

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