Jourard Self Quotes

#1. I just don't want to die without a few scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

Sidney Jourard

#3. Do not have any other loves before me in your heart. Do not take my name in vain. Do not kill me. Observe me, and keep me holy.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#5. You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able anticipate how he will react and what part he will play?

Sidney Jourard

#6. This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

Sidney Jourard

#7. Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

Sidney Jourard

#8. We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Sidney Jourard

#9. We encourage people to believe that there is only one identity, one role, one way for them to be, one value for them to fulfill, rather than a host of possible 'incarnations' to be lived in a lifetime.

Sidney Jourard

#10. The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.

Sidney Jourard

#11. The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

Abraham Verghese

#12. Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Phyllis Diller

#13. My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

Kate Bosworth

#14. Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.

Sidney Jourard

#15. I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

James Frey

#16. Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.

Camron Wright

#17. For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.

Jill Scott

#18. In the kitchen Gamache's German shepherd, Henri, sat up in his bed and cocked his head. He had huge oversized ears which made Gamache think he wasn't purebred but a cross between a shepherd and a satellite dish.

Louise Penny

#19. The sparks faded, but Cal didn't take his hand off mine.

Rachel Hawkins

#20. Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right ... Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.

Sidney Jourard

#21. Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Albert Camus

#22. Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

Sidney Jourard

#23. A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now are, or shall we seek instead to remain an enigma, an uncertain quantity , wishing to be seen as something we are not?

Sidney Jourard

#24. Utilizing a nonlinear approach and companion competencies makes it possible for people to move from good performance to great.

John H. Zenger

#25. I believe it is my dharma to not get inoculated because God ordains who will be diseased and who will be healthy. You obviously believe it is your dharma to inoculate me. Now it is over and you are guests in my home. This is the least I can offer you.

Deepak Chopra