Jourard Self Quotes & Sayings

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

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms. — Sidney Jourard

The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world. — Sidney Jourard

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe. — Bob Casey Jr.

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

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

Struggling transforms her captor into a Chinese finger trap. She's suffocating. Sucking in air without relief. Her lungs expand. Contract. Expand. They fill with lies and broken promises. With despair and lost hope. Each inhale is empty. Invisible hands reach into her body and constrict around her windpipe. She watches her friends collapse like supernovae, their cognizance disappearing into a black hole. A black hole she's quickly cascading into. The dark consumes, bleeds into her vision. She blinks. Catches icy blue eyes peeking out from the shadows. — Laura Kreitzer

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Being a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder. The — Megan Abbott

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

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

We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price ... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse ... we tend to lose touch with our real selves. — Sidney Jourard

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants, — Scott Raab

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love. — Sidney Jourard

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. — Sidney Jourard

FULL MOON IS IN THREE DAYS TIME. COME TO THE REVEL. NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO RHYME. — Holly Black

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

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

We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to "see" the world and construe it in the "right" way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we can become undeaf, unblind, and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meaning in the new book of our existence. — Sidney M. Jourard

I tend to leave the house without makeup all the time. I'm kind of lazy that way. — Rashida Jones

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them. — Anthony Kiedis

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow. — Sidney Jourard