You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial… — Jo Coudert Anti valentine Copy Share Image
The valuable friends are those who make you expand, who make you feel more decent and wiser than you suspect yourself to… — Jo Coudert Friend Copy Share Image
We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person… — Jo Coudert Human nature Copy Share Image
Of all the peple you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave nor lose. To… — Jo Coudert Life Copy Share Image
If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess.… — Jo Coudert Audacity Copy Share Image
The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
The person who conveys, 'I am nothing. Make me something,' may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea,… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the… — Jo Coudert Admiration Copy Share Image
Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags,… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Early on in this book, I quoted Socrates's famous dictum that, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Let me now turn… — Jo Coudert Books Copy Share Image
