Quotes About Individuality

A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.

The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.

En síntesis, aceptar y celebrar el hilo de nuestra propia personalidad es el primer paso para comprender el diseño del gran Tejedor en nuestra vida. No eres un número. Él te conoce por tu nombre. Cada etapa del proceso tal vez no parezca muy atractiva, pero cada detalle saldrá a relucir y será hermoso a su manera.

El día en que todas las personas se acepten por lo que son y reconozcan la singularidad del proceso constitutivo de Dios, marcará el comienzo de un viaje para ver la obra de la mano de Dios en cada vida.

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.

But no man's a hero to himself.

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it?

We haven't been too bad, have we? No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things.

We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.

So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.

Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?

I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that.

So few want to be rebels anymore.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

You always dread the unfamiliar...We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self.