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Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

born 1931 United States

Irvin D. Yalom (born 13 June 1931) M.D. is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, existentialist and psychotherapist.

United States
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Non-fiction authors
Psychiatrists

Also known as: Irvin yalom

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If we live a life full of regret, full of things we haven't done, if we've lived an unfulfilled life, when death comes along, it's a lot worse. I think it's true for all of us.

I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.

One of the most important things was from a patient who said to me what a pity it was that he had to wait until now, when he was riddled with death, to learn how to live. And I have used that phrase many times: hoping that if you introduce people, in an appropriate way, to their mortality that might change the way they live and allow them to trivialise the trivia in their life.

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