Quotes About Personal

A better man might have handled the situation with more grace than I did. A better man would have been able to separate his personal life from his career.

Ich will damit sagen, daß man, wenn man genau achtgeben würde, unbedingt zu dem Resultat kommen müßte, daß alle sogenannten großen, historischen Ereignisse in Wahrheit zurückzuführen sind auf irgendein Moment im Privatleben ihrer Urheber oder auf mehrere Momente.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Chivalry here took a final farewell. It had to yield to the heightened intensity of war, just as all fine and personal feeling has to yield when machinery gets the upper hand. The Europe of today appeared here for the first time on the field of battle.

Les livres gardent l'empreinte d'une personne plus que les vêtements et les chaussures.

In no case is there a loss of personal existence to deplore. Nor will there ever be.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

David Seabury's book The Art of Selfishness

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Unless we get at the institutional structures that mold our personal and interpersonal experience, our understanding will be incomplete. If our practice is going to truly help the world, it must evolve beyond personal awareness and service work into a true sense of participation in society, of questioning the decisions that we have made together about how our society should be arranged. This

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

what seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day:

The practice of prayer, if it is going to amount to anything more than wish lists and complaints, requires a recovery of personal, relational, revelational language in both our listening and our speaking.

God's providence is never characterized in broad generalities or pious abstractions but always in the particular, in the personal, in the recognition of grace in an unlikely time, at an unlikely place. Who could have anticipated ravens?

What is dangerous is not ideas but the academic mind that abstracts both things and people from particular relationships into concepts. And what is dangerous is not programs but the programmatic mind that routinely sets aside the personal in order to more efficiently achieve an impersonal cause.

Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not 'How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?' but 'How many people have you listened to in Christ this week?

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

So I imagine that the soul is in one aspect a pervasive, transformable matter and in another a particular, personal intelligence; it is envelopingly cosmic and individually human. (pp. 134-135).

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

In my personal life, dark material is kind of an emptying out - it leaves more room for light. If I'm writing a particularly awful scene, something is released in the process.

I remember watching 'The Lunchbox' that released around the same time 'Ship Of Theseus'. Both films found space in the independent cinema circuit. But at a personal level, 'The Lunchbox' is one of the favourite films.

I'm so proud of 'As She Pleases.' It's a really personal record, and I put so much of myself into it that; it feels like I am sharing part of my soul with the world by releasing it.