The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned. — Jo Coudert 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 the questions… — Jo Coudert 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
It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if your own life is to add up, you must subtract yourself from someone else's life. This time comes, I think, whenever you… — 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
The valuable friends are those who make you expand, who make you feel more decent and wiser than you suspect yourself to be. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I saw one of the absolute truths of this world: each person is worrying about himself; no one is worrying about you. He or… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
While it is necessary to eat and therefore it is pleasantest to eat food that looks handsome and tastes good, on the other hand… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
We are all so much more interesting to ourselves than to anyone else because we know how many potentialities are alive in us, and… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook. — 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 and disapproval,… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Both praise and criticism are reinforcing, but praise reinforces good traits, criticism bad traits. To criticize with the thought that pointing out deficiencies will… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
