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A Matter of Death and Life QUOTES

A Matter of Death and Life QUOTES

1 " What Matters to Me"
1. What matters to me is my family and close friends. In this way, I am like almost everyone else in the world.
2. What matters to me is my work, no longer as a professor, but as a writer reaching out to readers within and beyond the academic circle,
3. What matters to me is Nature, another form of beauty and truth. Throughout my life the natural world has been a source of enjoyment, comfort, and inspiration.
4. And now I remember...the fourth...It has to do with moral impulse, with the search for meaning and human connection, and with our relation to Nature, that we now lump together under the word "spirituality. "

― Irvin D. Yalom , A Matter of Death and Life

2 " It is very heartening to know that even when we get it wrong (i.e. being human) we can make it right with authenticity and kindness. "

― Irvin D. Yalom , A Matter of Death and Life

3 " Many of the early explorers in my field—Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, John Bowlby—concluded that early trauma, even dating back to preverbal eras, takes its toll, often an indelible toll, on the comfort, the ease, the self-esteem, of the adult, even into late stages of life. "

― Irvin D. Yalom , A Matter of Death and Life

4 " These are human being to human being: not so much therapist-client moments, and these moments have made a huge difference to me (and to my own clients). It is very heartening to know that even when we get it wrong (i.e., being human) we can make it right with authenticity and kindness. "

― Irvin D. Yalom , A Matter of Death and Life