38 Quotes About Personal-history
- Author Anatole Broyard
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)
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- Author Connor Judson Garrett
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Heart RingsWhat stories would our bones tellif they had rings like trees?circles marking the timeswhen you felt lovedwhen you were in lovewhen you grievedwhen you did something thatrequired every last ounce of your couragewhen you were full of faith — That is how our hearts worka lone, rhythmic documentarian chronicling your life in the shadow of your flesh mysterious even to its ownerAnd someday we might learnthat it was drawing a mapfor the soul to navigate the real final frontier
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- Author Sol Luckman
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With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.
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- Author Erik Pevernagie
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Emotion is ‘recognition’. When treasured moments are identified in the jungle of our personal history during a visual or aural encounter, we capture magic sparks from our past, arousing flashes of insight and revealing an inner flare. These instants of recognition may kindle enthralling emotion and fulfilling inspiration. (“Those journeys of love”)
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- Author George Eliot
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The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
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- Author Penelope Lively
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Jane--it's history, all this." I say that I have always thought history to be of great relevance.
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- Author Penelope Lively
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We are all of us palimpsests; we carry the past around, it comes surging up whether or not we want it, it is an albatross, and a crutch.
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- Author Frank M. Wanderer
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Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The future represents an idea or expectations that influence our present state of mind.
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