Quotes About Personal

Forse c'è qualcosa di più intimo e segreto da scoprire nel volto di una persona addormentata che in un corpo nudo

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of I. I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

Never been a washcloth user, no.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

I had to do it for myself.

Cada uno de nuestros duelos es único y cada manera de afrontarlos es irrepetible…

Mi historia personal puede condicionar mi elección, pero no me quita la posibilidad de elegir.

Aprovechar los conflictos para el crecimiento personal, de eso se trata. En lugar de utilizar mi energía para cambiar al otro, utilizarla para observar qué hay de mí en eso que me molesta.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

Quando um indivíduo cria algo, digamos, uma composição musical, um romance, uma pintura, um filme, um vídeo, esse indivíduo se torna um autor, quer dizer, alguém que é capaz de deixar marcas, traços de seu modo próprio de criar mensagens em um processo de signos com o qual lida. O autor é aquele que interfere de modo particular e pessoal em um processo de signos.

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream.

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths.

Within well-educated households, the critical transition from reading aloud to silent reading occurred during the fifteenth century. In time, other readers would master this liberating technique. Revolutionary in scope, silent reading let individuals scrutinize books with ease and speed. No less important, it allowed them to explore texts in isolation, apart from friends and family, or masters. Reading became vastly more personal, as more people pondered books and formed ideas on their own.

History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult.

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

Life is a do-it-yourself project

telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

A]s Norman Mailer pointed out decades ago, and Philip Roth not long afterwards, niceness is the enemy. Every soft stroke from society is like the pfft of an aerosol can as it eats up a few more atoms of our brain's delicate ozone, and furthers our personal cretinization.

I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi:

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

To the Christian doctrine of the infinite significance of the individual human soul and of personal responsibility, I oppose with icy clarity the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance of the individual human being, and of his continued existence in the visible immortality of the nation".

I think poetry is a shared thing, a gift for both the writer and the reader. If we caretake that gift to the best of our abilities, we create an experience that is simultaneously personal and collective."- Adrian Matejka