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“I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.”

Thinking Way Littles Young Shining Polish Nostalgic Treasured Personal History Heirlooms

Author:Will Self

“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”

Mind Process Memories Ego Achievement Possession Habitual Thought Process Personal History

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.”

Feelings Regions Tribes Extensions Grandma Inseparable Provinces Personal History

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces. I was starting to find some of them, working my way upriver, collecting a secret cache of broken memories in a shoebox.”

Way States Stories Mother Memories My Own Secret Pieces Missing Broken Fit Starting My Way Sole Collecting Personal History Totalitarian State Missing Piece Cache

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.”

Knows Soul Jesus Christ Danger Jesus Christ Connections Doctrine Intimate Shakes Discipleship Personal History

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.”

Soul Memories Share Personal History

Author:Emily Giffin

“We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.”

People Feels Problem Would Be Fall Love Is Emotion Childhood Falling In Love Adolescence Suitable Evoke No Love Involuntary Personal History

Book:Hector and the Secrets of Love

Source: Hector and the Secrets of Love

“I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.”

Real Order Needed Personal History

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.”

Ifs Thinking Way Different Stories Would Be Loss Our Lives Perspective Lenses Hades Devastation Persephone Framing Personal History Demeter

Author:Kiersten White

“We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.”

World Stills Ends Matter Light Today Purpose House Music Teacher Influence Mirrors Authenticity Posts The End Of The Day Personal History

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.”

“I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.”

Years Interest My Own Prepared Biographies Personal History

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people”

People Historical Erase Personal History

Book:Journey to Ixtlan: the Lessons of Don Juan

Source: Journey to Ixtlan: the Lessons of Don Juan

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

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Author:A. E. Housman

“When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.”

Ifs Made Hero Accepted Dragons Conformity Heroic Strain Non Conformity Personal History Being Accepted

Book:Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

“There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.”

Culture Depends Sick Temperament Phenomenology Personal History Being Sick

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.”

Men Skills Achievement Compare Personal History

Author:Silvio Berlusconi

“Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the most aggressive of lawyers who can cross-examine me on my personal history.”

Action Faces Taken Crosses Election Court Prepared Boxes Lawyer Stuck Witness Aggressive Libel Personal History Election Time

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.”

Firsts Humans Individual Wish Greater Seeing Example Anxiety Negative Difficulty Tendencies Ease Manipulation Items Illumination Evoke Connotation Personal History

Author:Lionel Tiger

“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.”

Men Way Want Important Book Facts My Own He Man Reader Office Affair Wraps Disappointing Mills Personal History

Author:B. Traven

“The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any life passage may be at the heart of healing, our healers -declared or undeclared - will help people use the power of dreaming to move beyond personal history into a bigger story that contains the juice and sense of purpose to get them through.”

“I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.”

Knows Children Dream Our Children Pursue Your Children Urges Grandchildren Hopes And Dreams Children And Grandchildren Personal History

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.”

Book Pieces Poet Masters Accounts Delight Gentle Courageous Dreamer Unforgettable Doubters Personal History Best Poet

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.”

Humans Lord Members Human History Redeemed Personal History

Author:Margaret Clarkson

“Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.”

Years May Culture Father Speak Levels Groups Fields Building Son Experience Playing Fields Father And Son Building Up Personal History Shared Experiences Level Playing Field

Author:John Thorn

“A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.”

Mind Persons Said Products Evolution Species Endowment Personal History

Author:B. F. Skinner