Momma and the Meaning of Life Quotes

“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

“every single person in the world is fundamentally alone. It’s hard, but that’s the way it is, and we have to face it.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psycho-therapy

“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

“Upon learning that her cancer had spread to her spine, Paula prepared her thirteen year-old son for her death by writing him a letter of farewell that moved me to years. In her final paragraph she reminded him that the lungs in the human fetus do not breathe, nor do it's eyes see. Thus, the embryo is being prepared for an existence it cannot yet imagine”
― Irvin Yalom, سپیده حبیب, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“I hate it that she has so insinuated herself into the interstices of my mind that I can never root her out. And most of all, I hate that at the end of my life I feel compelled to ask, "How'd I do, Mama?".”
― Irvin Yalom, سپیده حبیب, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“I only meant that a feeling is merely a feeling. A subjective state can never substantiate an objective truth.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“Myrna. Listen hard to what I’m going to say. You’re collecting and hoarding. You’re accumulating information from me, but you’re not giving anything back! I believe you’re trying to relate to me differently now but I’m not experiencing it as engagement. I don’t feel yet that you’re relating to me as a person—it’s more like you regard me as a data bank from which you make withdrawals.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“Hard to think of others when you’re feeling trapped, feeling you’re spinning in a vicious circle.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“But those things aren’t you. They are just things about you, not the real, the core you. Look at the center of you. What do you want to change there?”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“Nu numai ca fictiunea isi are propriul adevar, dar orice povestire, oricat de „adevarata”, este o minciuna pentru ca omite atat de multe.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Where death is, I am not; where I am, death is not.’” “Is that any different from ‘When you’re dead, you’re dead’?” “A big difference. In death there is no ‘you.’ ‘You’ and ‘dead’ cannot coexist.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“In fact, we found strong evidence that many of the widows who had had the best marriages went through the bereavement and detachment process more easily than those who had had a deeply conflicted one. (The explanation for this paradox lay, it seemed to me, in “regret”: for those who had spent their lives married to the wrong person, bereavement was more complicated because they also had to grieve for themselves, for their many squandered years.)”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“Like Paula, the members were eager for students; they felt that they had much to teach, and that their death sentences had made them wise. They had learned one lesson particularly well: that life cannot be postponed; it must be lived now, not suspended until the weekend, until vacation, until the children leave for college, until the diminished years of retirement. More than once I heard the lament, “What a pity it is that I had to wait till now, till my body was riddled with cancer, to learn how to live.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“It was she who taught me that embracing death honestly permits one to experience life in a richer, more satisfying manner.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“anxiety is a trail that leads to insight and wisdom?”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“when two opposing feelings put you in a dilemma, your best recourse is to express both feelings and the dilemma.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“We need art, Nietzsche said, lest we perish from the truth.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“After all, isn’t that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“Can it be that I have escaped neither my past nor my mother?”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“Am invatat in munca mea, ca se tem cel mai mult de moarte cei care se apropie de ea avand prea multa viata netraita in ei. Cel mai bine este sa ne folosim toata viata. Sa nu-i lasam mortii decat drojdiile, nimic altceva decat un castel ars pana in temelii.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Oamenii se iubesc pe ei insisi daca vad o imagine iubitoare a lor reflectata in ochii cuiva de care le pasa cu adevarat.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Confruntarea cu moartea iminenta poate sa propulseze omul in intelepciune si la o noua profunzime a existentei.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Am invatat demult ca atunci cand intre doua persoane este un lucru grav si nu vorbesc despre el, nu vorbesc nici despre altceva important.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“من نیز با پیروی از فروید اغلب رؤیاپرداز را کوتوله ی فربه و سرحالی تصور می کنم که در دل جنگل دندریت ها و اکسون ها، زندگی خوبی برای خود دست و پا کرده است. روزها می خوابد ولی شب ها، با وزوز و همهمه ی سیناپس ها سر از نازبالشش برمی دارد، نوشابه ی عسلی اش را می نوشد و با تنبلی، رشته ی رؤیاهای میزبانش را درهم می تند... به قصه های مضحک پریان شبیه است. درست همان انسان انگاری رایج قرن نوزدهم. همان خطای متداول فروید در عینی نمایاندن ساختارهای انتزاعی ذهن و مبدل ساختنشان به جن و پری هایی مستقل و مختار. فقط کاش من هم باورش نداشتم! ”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Sometimes I felt like I'd just drift off into oblivion if it weren't for your hand anchoring me to my life.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Se c'è una via verso il Meglio, essa necessita di uno sguardo intenso al Peggio.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“Siamo creature in ricerca perenne di significati, che devono venire a patti con il fatto di essere scagliate in un universo che, intrinsecamente, è privo di significato.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy – A Therapist's Clinical Stories of Memorable Patients and Transformation

“The ancient philosopher who said “Where death is, I am not; where I am, death is not” was Lucretius, expounding upon Epicurus.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“Therapy is a two-person relationship demanding both interaction and exploration of that interaction; real feelings and mutual disclosure about the feelings evoked in the therapy interaction are necessary. Today many progressive psychoanalytic institutes have abandoned the old blank screen model in favor of a new model—the real two-person relationship—and published clinical investigations of that phenomenon—”intersubjectivity” or “two-person” psychology—are now commonplace in the professional literature.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy

“Death is the extinguishing of consciousness.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy