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 only one you will never leave …

- Jo Coudert

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 is the relationship to …

- Jo Coudert

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

- Jo Coudert

Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the world. Why it is assumed that marria…

- Jo Coudert

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 whet…

- Jo Coudert

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

- Jo Coudert

The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be underst…

- Jo Coudert

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

- Jo Coudert

The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are pa…

- Jo Coudert