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Book: The Schopenhauer Cure
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
This world is supposed to have been made by a God? No, much better by a devil!
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway."
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
Every breath we draw wards off the death that constantly impinges on us…. Ultimately death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a short while before swallowing it up. However, we continue our life with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, just as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
One cold winter's day a number of porcupines huddled together quite closely in order, through their mutual warmth, to prevent themselves from being frozen. But they soon felt the effects of their quills on one another, which made them again move apart. Now, when the need for warmth once again brought them together, the drawback of the quills was repeated so they were tossed between two evils, until they discovered the proper distance from which they could best tolerate one another. Thus the needs for society, which springs from the emptiness and monotony of men's lives, drives them together but their many unpleasant and repulsive qualities once more drive them apart.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
Absolutely, bring any kind of carrot cake you wish.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it."
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
Trăiește cum trebuie și ai încredere că vei da celorlalți lucruri bune, chiar dacă tu nu vei afla niciodată asta.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about the process, what do they remember? Never the ideas-it's always the relationship.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
{...} Arthur ne aminteşte adesea {şi lui însuşi} că emoţia are puterea de a ascunde şi de a falsifica cunoaşterea; că lumea întreagă capătă un aspect senin atunci când avem motive să ne bucurăm şi unul întunecat şi posomorât atunci când ne copleşeşte părerea de rău
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
Some said living with cancer had made them wiser, more self-realized, while others had reordered their priorities in life, grown stronger, learned to say no to activities they no longer valued and yes to things that really mattered-such as loving their family and friends, observing the beauty about them, savoring the changing seasons.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
No rose without a thorn. But many a thorn without a rose.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ The Schopenhauer Cure
Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners condemned not to death but to life and as yet all too unconscious of what their sentence means. Nevertheless every man desires to reach old age…a state of life of which it may be said "it is bad today, and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens.
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