Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

Irvin D. Yalom

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WorkLoveGoodRomanticDarkness

When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be like Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks. I didn't know that people would add hair for more length. I'm like, 'Oh all these people just have natural hair like this.' I obviously grew up and figured out that everyone does something to their hair.

Jillian Hervey

PeopleHairThoughtTryingKnowOut

People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.

Jenny Slate

WorkBestDressPeopleBelieve

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Michael Graves

GoodPeopleBetterTryingYouLook

Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and in all cases, their size and their material construction are totally different matters even though they affect one another.

John Tyler Bonner

PlantsConstructionAnimalsWill

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

Stephen Lang

GodClownPlayingCallUsedClowns

Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

Tracie Bennett

Black And WhiteBeautifulGreatWorld

We're trying to say that if you, in love, when you're not true to yourself, the love won't last. Because love is complex, and we always have the dark sides and the sad sides.

RM

LoveSadYourselfLove IsYouDark

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

Miranda Cosgrove

MeWishesRebelliousPart

Night was running ahead of itself.

Jorge Amado

NightAheadRunningItself

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.

Joseph Pulitzer

ImaginationPeopleSympathyAmerican

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.

Donna Lynne Champlin

BlameYouChoicePersonDifficult

Fruitcakes have a bad rap.

Christina Tosi

BadRapBad Rap

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