Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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Sigmund Freud
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
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Kevin Alan Lee
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
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R.D. Laing
How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.
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The Cure
Through most of human history, our ancestors had children shortly after puberty, just as the members of all nonhuman species do to this day. Whether we like the idea or not, our young ancestors must have been capable of providing for their offspring, defending their...
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Robert Epstein
More Quotes By Irvin D. Yalom
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though...
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He suspected that nothing had...
