Jo Coudert
Jo Coudert
Jo Coudert quotes about
self-esteem believe views
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 and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.
being-single self single-life
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 the self.
notebook meaningful running
If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.
self-esteem being-single people
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 or lose.
circles people trying
The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.
human-nature quirks treats
It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.
denial way needs
To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.
genuine-love self affirmation
Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.