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“There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.”

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Advice from a Failure

This book delves into the author's personal journey of encountering and overcoming failure, providing readers with valuable lessons and perspectives on resilience and growth. more

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Jo Coudert

Jo Coudert is a renowned author whose works have gained widespread popularity. The exact birth and death years are unknown. more

“If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.”

Ifs Men Doe Facts Loses Identity Depends Return Findings

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“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.”

Ifs Running Action Life Is Scene Meaningful Notebook Motion Pictures Journaling

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“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.”

People Trying Littles Ends Might Would Be Individual Speak Higher Angry Rate Circles Stealing Guilty Labels Dependent Chickens Paranoid Trying To Change

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“Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.”

Persons Life Is Dilemma

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“Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the world. Why it is assumed that marriage is more impervious to the effects of discourtesy than friendship, I do not know.”

People Ifs Knows World Effects Treats Spouse Impervious

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“One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.”

Ifs Doe Judging Behavior Weapons Threat Punishment Bags Unhappiness Hunting Mistaken Spouse Employed License Withdrawal Disapproval

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“Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.”

Heart Serious Warm Affliction Approving

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“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.”

Should Feelings Age Past Thumbs

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