There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
“The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. — Margaret Clarkson Copy Share Image
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or… — Mark Mustian Copy Share Image
I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others’ lives through observation,… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and… — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself.… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Thats simple, says the old man. They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life… — Br0k3n_h3Art Copy Share Image
“Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own… — Thomas Beller Copy Share Image
“What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I… — Isabel Wolff Copy Share Image
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“In just a few weeks, Soldier 13 became aware of a mutation in the colors of his consciousness. As the theoretical classes… — Leonardo Padura Fuentes Copy Share Image
“The experiment changed Sally’s life. In the following days she realised she has been through a ‘near-spiritual experience…what defined the experience was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“As I turned my head and looked out the window, I saw that everything around me was glowing from within. The sunlight… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
“I have no routines or personal history. One day I found out that they were no longer necessary for me and, like… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“Tamlin surveyed the hand Rhys had resting on my sparkling knee. The loathing in Tamlin's eyes practically simmered. No one, not even… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“I wish I'd been accepted sooner and better. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“A moment ago, when he entered this human aviary, the pictures, modestly enclosed in four wooden mouldings, remained flat and silent before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The experience of stress has three components. The first is the event, physical or emotional, that the organism interprets as threatening. This… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“This realization is much like Donald Miller's awakening after a day of protesting President Bush: "More than my questions about the efficacy… — Dennis Okholm Copy Share Image
“In order to answer the question “Who am I?”, in order to go back to before the beginning within your own experience,… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“There had been an uprising by the Bondelswaartz in 1922, and general turmoil in the country. His radio experiments interrupted, he sought… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
