Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective. — Jo Coudert Brilliant Copy Share Image
Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it. — Jo Coudert Dilemma Copy Share Image
We must find a way, not to change each other, but to let each other be. — Jo Coudert Change Copy Share Image
We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love. — Jo Coudert Affirmation 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
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
At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly… — Jo Coudert Age Copy Share Image
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
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
In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past. — 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
Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education. — Jo Coudert Books 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I saw one of the absolute truths of this world: each person is worrying about himself; no one is worrying about you.… — Jo Coudert Absolute truth 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… — Jo Coudert Criticism 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
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
Rather, it is meant to say that expressed arguments are never won, that only the first several minutes of any discussion can… — Jo Coudert Argument Copy Share Image
A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the… — Jo Coudert Abandonment 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,… — Jo Coudert Life 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
We are all so much more interesting to ourselves than to anyone else because we know how many potentialities are alive in… — Jo Coudert Friendship 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
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the… — Jo Coudert Anti valentine 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 Copy Share Image
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings. — Jo Coudert Failure 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… — 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… — Jo Coudert Action Copy Share Image
