Quotes About Personal

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

We need you to be you. We don't need a second anybody. We need the first you.

may have been done or said by someone else. That's a distinct possibility. It may have been done or said before. But it hasn't been done or said by you. It hasn't come through your unique flesh and blood, through your life, through your experience and insight and perspective.

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

Thou art God'. It's not a message of cheer and hope. It's a defiance - and an unafraid, unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.

Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average personal values, all of which must be quantitively different or trade would be impossible.

All revelations are personal, that's why all revelations are suspect.

Value' has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—'market value' is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average of personal values, all of which must be quantitatively different or trade would be impossible.

Belle was not only a perfect secretary and office manager, she also had personal specs which would have delighted Praxiteles and a fragrance which affected me the way catnip does Pete.

Social fields are real enough that, as psychologists have demonstrated, people react visibly when you come within their personal space: they become defensive or nervous. Social fields are not real enough to remain constant, as physical fields do, or usually do. They vary from culture to culture. An American reacts nervously when you get within one foot of him, but a Mexican wants you that close and becomes nervous if you stay further away.

When transcendence of our personal history takes precedence over intimacy with our personal history, spiritual bypassing is inevitable. To not be intimate with our past—to not be deeply and thoroughly acquainted with our conditioning and its originating factors—keeps it undigested and unintegrated and therefore very much present

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.

it was his choice. To be a witness, to observe, to let the events be recorded within himself on some personal film in some secret compartment no one knew about, except him.

he had never felt left out: it was his choice. To be a witness, to observe, to let the events be recorded within himself on some personal film in some secret compartment no one knew about, except him.

Humor. I am my own best audience. Meryl

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

This is not just storytelling. It is the sharing of personal mythology. It's how we all make sense out of our lives and give its events significance. It parallels the mythmaking of the human race. It is the ritual of remembrance.

Rituals do not always involve words, occasions, officials, or an audience. Rituals are often silent, solitary, and self-contained. The

A seducer does not turn the power off and on—every social and personal interaction is seen as a potential seduction. There is never a moment to waste.

attunement, and spiritual healing, the Cayce readings suggest that as individuals attune themselves to higher states of consciousness, they literally raise their personal vibrations in the process. Not only does this raising of vibrations facilitate personal healing, but it enables the individual to become a catalyst of healing for others. The material provided to the Glad Helpers Prayer Group states that

I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.

Sorrow ought to be private, she thinks, not flaunted.

I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, insanely, and without recourse

Sax had always been so uninterested in [power and gain] that it was hard for him to understand why anyone else would be. What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one's options, and reduce one's freedom. One became a servant of one's wealth or power, constrained to spend all one's time protecting it.