38 Quotes by Jo Coudert

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

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.

Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse.

We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

People who are good to each other make each other good.

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 understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.