Sidney Jourard Quotes

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

Sidney Jourard

#2. I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Tamsin Greig

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Being in love is a strange thing. Even when you hate the person for saying or doing something, you don't stop loving them. You may want to or even go as far to say you won't, but when you love them, truly love them, it never goes away.

Shey Stahl

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

Sidney Jourard

#7. We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

Gayle Forman

#8. Attending a poetry reading is like being in a hospital," he said as we left the next station. "Full of neuroses.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#9. 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

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

Sidney Jourard

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.

Benjamin Rosenbaum

#14. As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

Wayne Swan

#15. 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

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

Sidney Jourard

#17. There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

#18. 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

#19. Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#20. Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

Reza Aslan

#21. You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child before sleep. A story is control.

Roshani Chokshi