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Quotes About Personal

Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that compares to it.
~ Unknown
Facts are irrefutable. Truths coming from those facts can be difficult to accept, particularly when they are of a personal nature. But truths, Agent Puller, cannot be ignored. Any more than lies can. And people do lie to themselves. All the time. We
~ David Baldacci
Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.
~ Unknown
Unadorned suffering is the bedmate of masculine growth. Only by staying intimate with your personal suffering can you feel through it to its source.
~ David Deida
Your personal tastes are going to be influenced by the stories that you've loved the most. So don't ever try to be "completely" original. It's a good way to go mad.
~ David Farland
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.
~ David Foster Wallace
There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free.
~ David Foster Wallace
That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.
~ David Foster Wallace
Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to be yours as of who knows how many Substance-drenched years ago.
~ David Foster Wallace
That everybody's sneeze sounds different.
~ David Foster Wallace
People turned out so identical in certain root domestic particulars it made Gately feel strange sometimes, like he was in possession of certain overlarge private facts to which no man should be entitled.
~ David Foster Wallace
Personal pleasure and gross revenue looked at last to lie along the same demand curve, at least as far as home entertainment went.
~ David Foster Wallace
Are the values we hold dear and guide our lives by just social conventions, like driving on the right-hand versus left-hand side of the road? Or are they merely expressions of personal preference, like having a taste for certain foods? Or are they somehow valid and binding, independent of our opinion, and if they are objective in this way, what is their foundation?
~ William Lane Craig
small bathroom she drew on her nightdress again in order
~ William Trevor
have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. We get in our own way.
~ William Ury
That's personal," Langley cut in.
~ William W. Johnstone
Their lives had been different; but one day perhaps he would open this strange book of war, and by the vivid light of personal danger read the lessons it contained.
~ Winston S. Churchill
in our human state there is no separation between public deeds and personal psychology, and the story of the one would be incomplete without the other.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Poniedzia?ek Ja. Wtorek Ja. ?roda Ja. Czwartek Ja. Pi?tek
~ Witold Gombrowicz
There is no water like the water out of your own well.
~ Wu Cheng'en
The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. You must follow your own path. that is the way.
~ Wu Wei
I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.
~ Y?ko Tawada
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
~ Yann Martel
The poor have always had to live for the present, but now a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class as well.
~ Christopher Lasch