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
What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves.… — 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 find that the affection or love of someone else can be kept only at the cost of yourself. If you are on the receiving end of much criticism, if the other has nothing but dissatisfaction with… — Jo Coudert Copy Share
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 she is worrying about whether you like him, not whether he likes you. He is worrying about whether he looks prepossessing, not whether you are dressed correctly. He is worrying about whether he appears poised, not… — Jo Coudert Copy Share
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 the person who considers them dead issues and insists on seeing us flatly as no more than we are is appreciated as an enemy rather than a friend. It is perfectly human to ferret out the… — Jo Coudert Copy Share
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
