The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it… — Jo Coudert Habit Copy Share Image
The pain of being unloved is not the absence of love but seeing ourselves as unlovable. — Jo Coudert Love Copy Share Image
Rather, it is meant to say that expressed arguments are never won, that only the first several minutes of any discussion can… — Jo Coudert Point of view 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 Changed Copy Share Image
Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive. — Jo Coudert Affliction 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 unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing.… — Jo Coudert Arena 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 Affront Copy Share Image
Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education. — Jo Coudert Books 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
Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it. — Jo Coudert Dilemma Copy Share Image
Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or… — Jo Coudert Chocolate 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
It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground,… — Jo Coudert Amount Copy Share Image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 Depends Copy Share Image
Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love. — Jo Coudert Affirmation 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… — Jo Coudert Anxiety Copy Share Image
Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory. — Jo Coudert Abiding Copy Share Image
To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely… — Jo Coudert Accepted Copy Share Image
The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called… — Jo Coudert Angry 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 Answers Copy Share Image
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
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship truly central and crucial in a… — Jo Coudert Life Copy Share Image
