"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."

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Source : Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “The Spinoza Problem: A Novel”, p.167, Basic Books

Irvin D. Yalom

#Self Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.”
“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”
“Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.”
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”
“Would love be so different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why did she feel so tormented?”
“I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951
“I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.”
“What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.14, Candlewick Press

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