Quotes About Personal

And her father's personal odor, of which she would no more speak than she would have uttered an obscenity in his presence.

God desires that all men would come to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and through Him come to know Him personally and intimately.

For women, deeply personal writing can also be described as a rebellion against the expected role, though in the case of women, the expectation is that we will be preoccupied with inner lives, with relationships, and with family, but that we will gear our stories to satisfy, flatter, or collude with our immediate circle.

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

I wear the skirt with boots and a loose white sweater. I have to pick a dozen cat hairs off it. Minka must have been sleeping in my sweater drawer. When I forget to close my dresser drawers she hops right in and makes herself at home.

And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

The first ethical move is not to abstract from my individual context, still less to discount it, but rather to understand what it consists in, to achieve self-knowledge as far as I can, and then to think about how best to live my life in these circumstances.

There is one thing above all others that I despise. It is fingers, especially female fingers, messing around in my guts. My guts, like Victorian marriage, are private.

I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption. His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.

The success of any enterprise depends on personal effort, persistence, prudence, and basically on deep faith in God.

In and through the personal rediscovery of the great, we find that we need not be the passive victims of what we deterministically call 'circumstances'...but that by linking ourselves...with the great we can become freer- freer to be ourselves, to be what we most want and value.

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence.

That is why it is often such a relief when the talk turns from "general topics" to a man's own hobby. It is like turning from the landscape in the parlor to the ploughed field outdoors. It is a return to the three dimensional world, after a sojourn in the painter's portrayal of his own emotional response to his own inattentive memory of what he imagines he ought to have seen.

En el contexto civilizado, la estrategia de sumisión trae más problemas que ventajas. El sumiso desconoce sus derechos personales y, por lo tanto, no los defiende ni los ejerce. Se acurruca, se entrega, se agacha, pero a diferencia de lo que ocurre en el mundo animal, aquí el opositor no perdona: "Al caído, caerle".

El amor sano no es una tabla de mandamientos ni un listado de códigos, sino un proceso vital de descubrimiento y crecimiento personal. Amas a una persona cuando respetas su capacidad de crearse a sí misma.

El amor está hecho a la medida del que ama.

Cada virtud o conquista personal que desestimes es negar y faltar al respeto a tu existencia.

Siguiendo las premisas de la ética de la consideración,38 la asertividad bien entendida trata de equilibrar el yo autónomo (independiente) con el yo considerado (interpersonal). La combinación de ambos me permite estar comprometido con la red social/afectiva a la cual pertenezco y sostener al mismo tiempo un territorio de reserva personal. Pedro

Coherencia y flexibilidad, la clave de todo crecimiento personal: intentar ser consecuente, pero abierto al cambio.

La soledad es una decisión personal:

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

to pry too hard into somebody else's business,

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

One afternoon he started to talk about his collection of books. Of 3000 books, he found only 30 worth keeping. We were all ready to take notes, expecting Mies to tell us the titles of those 30 books. Mies, instead, with a big smile on his face told us they were important only to him and we must find our own 30 by ourselves.