Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

Irvin D. Yalom

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I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

Jim James

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I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.

Joan Halifax

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I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

Andrew Scott

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I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

Stephen Dobyns

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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

Stanley Crouch

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Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.

Simon Sinek

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Louis D. Brandeis

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I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

Julia Roberts

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I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.

Judith Viorst

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I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.

Don Rickles

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No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.

Debi Gliori

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A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Anthony Marra

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