Quotes About Personal

there are all sorts of things people do that they are eager to keep private, even though these sorts of things do not constitute doing "something wrong." Privacy is indispensable to a wide range of human activities.

When my mother died I learned that grief can be a very private thing.

Reading in the car was so much my personal journey that when my mother urged me to put down my book and look out the window, I would protest, "But I just looked an hour ago!

Like so many daughters who don't yet know that a female fate is not a personal fault, I told myself as a young woman, "I'm not going to be anything like my mother".

Looking at Barbados and Australia as relatively positive examples, one societal hallmark of self-esteem seems to be an ability to both give and demand fairness, an expectation that extends from the personal to the political.

Explore your truths. Trust what you find. Don't take anything personally. Release. Let go. Always go with your flow. Relax. Enjoy more.

God has made us this way, in his own image, because he himself is a personal, relational being.

Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.

All I could think was that no matter how close we are to someone else, there are limits, frontiers between us that we just can't cross, things that touch us so deeply they can't be shared with anyone else. Maybe, I thought, it's what we can't share with others that really defines who we are.

The thing I like most of all is personal achievement--not achievement for the world's applause, but achievement for my own delight.

Dame Betka laughed without humor. You are not alone in your yearnings. That is as may be! But I am quite alone in being Hester Lajoie! I strike my own personal path through the wilderness of life, and intent to resist dissolution tooth and nail!

The enemy of fear is not courage," Jahno translated for her. "The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.

Io sono Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève, e sono unica.

Tragedy is so personal, but it doesn't mean it hasn't happened before, to someone, somewhere—it's what helps us to understand and bring solace to others, knowing something of what they feel.

We have won freedom, he brooded, but if we abuse it, or vote for cheap personal advantage, it won't be worth having. We are familiar with the abuses of kings, but because what we now attempt is new, we can't foresee its abuses. They'll come.

he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its personal, blossoming finally into act, and bearing its personal fruitage of possibility and condition. Good mind undergo good fruit, terrible mind bad fruit.

I don't care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself.

You are the alchemist of your life.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the love here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

We no longer talked about our love affairs, for either they had failed, were failing, or were serious. Above all they were private—how can love be talked about? It is probably the most awful of all the revelations this little life affords.

In contrast, two thirds of the comparison companies had leaders with gargantuan personal egos that contributed to the demise or continued mediocrity of the company.

a man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show his very special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except himself alone