"To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone."

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Source : Irvin D. Yalom (1980). “Existential Psychotherapy”, p.357, Basic Books

Irvin D. Yalom

#Responsible Quotes

“Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.”

Source : 1810 'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).
“It occured to me that we will never be young again.”
“I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.”
“When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.79, Copper Canyon Press
“A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.”
“I'm proud of The Hangover, but to be in movies like this, which are really the only places I can get work, it's really quite the opposite of what I am. I like sensitive art-house movies. I'm not even much of a partier. I mean, I'll drink myself into oblivion alone in my car.”
“Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2008). “The Name of this Book Is Secret”, p.187, Hachette UK
“Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.”

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