A novel of obsession written by Irvin D. Yalom
- "Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit." (sounds familiar? heee... maybe Dr. Ng is great fan of Yalom)
- "to find dawns and golden possibilities on the horizons of my whole future life. To love a rich, bold soul: everyone needs that."
- "the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one's friends, was the absence of scrutiny - the horror of living an unobserved life."
- "for a psychologist, personal suffering is a blessing - the training ground for facing the suffering of existence."
- "one does not, strictly speaking, choose or select a disease; but one does choose stress - and it is stress that chooses the disease."
- "if human belief and behavior are to be understood, one must first sweep away convention, mythology, and religion. Only then, with no preconceptions whatsoever, should one presume to examine the human subject."
- "what matters is what you will tell yourself, and what I will tell myself."
- "All seeing is relative, and so is all knowing. We invent what we experience. And what we have invented, we can destroy."
- "We must look to meaning. The symptom is but a messenger carrying the news that Angst is erupting from the innermost realm!"
