Jo Coudert Quotes

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• You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life…
• It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good…
• In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
• The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has…
• You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are…
• The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
• It seems to me that people cannot be divided into two groups on the basis of whether or not they are attempting to change, but…
• You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship truly central and crucial in a life is the…
• The pain of being unloved is not the absence of love but seeing ourselves as unlovable.
• We receive love not because we deserve it but because we give it.
• Both praise and criticism are reinforcing, but praise reinforces good traits, criticism bad traits. To criticize with the thought that pointing out deficiencies will cause…
• We must find a way, not to change each other, but to let each other be.
• ... men fear impotence; women fear abandonment.
• Rather, it is meant to say that expressed arguments are never won, that only the first several minutes of any discussion can be counted on…
• The valuable friends are those who make you expand, who make you feel more decent and wiser than you suspect yourself to be.
• Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education.
• Early on in this book, I quoted Socrates's famous dictum that, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Let me now turn the phrase inside…
• Of all the peple you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave nor lose. To the questions in…

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