Quotes About Personal

Even the radicalism of the sixties served, for many of those who embraced it for personal rather than political reasons, not as a substitute religion but as a form of therapy. Radical politics filled empty lives, provided a sense of meaning and purpose.

The Therapeutic Sensibility The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.

Forgiveness is associated with a variety of traits that are of value for personal and societal well-being. Forgiving people appear to be slightly lower in a variety of negative affects, including anger, anxiety, depression, and hostility. Forgivers also tend to endorse socially desirable attitudes and behavior, and self-ratings of the disposition to forgive correlate negatively with clinicians' ratings of hostility and passive-aggressive behavior.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

To each his own.

Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas, under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.

Apabila seseorang mencoba untuk melukaiku dengan alasan pribadi yang bagaimanapun, aku merasa lemah untuk tidak memaafkannya. Tapi bila mereka dengan sengaja mencoba untuk menghancurkan negara, aku tidak akan mengampuninya.

A man's home may be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

Don't yield to confidences. My misfortunes are none of her business.

Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

Any political affiliation is not a playground for personal interests. People can play with you up to the extent of endangering their lives. But the will to keep on playing is how the game is being played?

Love is an offering, not a souvenir or an investment for personal interests. If thou loves only thyself, then thou doesn't know the definition of the word.

Jesus' deep personal desire is for God to take away the necessity of this vicarious sacrifice. However, his greater desire is to see God's will accomplished, and this is where Jesus' victory over himself occurs.22

The critic can affect my aesthetic theories only by affecting my aesthetic experience. All systems of aesthetics must be based on personal experience--that is to say, they must be subjective.

The critics have always been slow to appreciate the true quality of the personal content of Joyce's work - a fact which has led to a serious misunderstanding of the fundamental double-talk inherent in his symbolic language.

Lose it for yourself, if you want to, but not for anyone else.

As it happens, there are three things in particular that suit me very ill: feathered hats, general ideas, and earrings.

If you want to find a child's weakness, failures, personal problems, or inadequacies, you'll discover them. If you look at a child through the filter of her or his environment or economic status, and make judgments through the filters of your own cultural, gender, and racial biases, you'll find the characteristics you expect.

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.