Quotes About Individuality

Multiple personalities. Don't freak out but I'm pretty sure I have them. Not a clinical thing, not a disease. But a distraction to be sure. There are maybe six or seven pretty concrete versions of myself knocking around in here and I mean it gets fucking crowded when everybody is drunk or talking at once.

Noise is mostly a by-product of our uniqueness, of our "judgment personality.

I don't spend a lot of time taking polls around the world to tell me what I think is the right way to act. I've just got to know how I feel" (George W. Bush, November 2002).

to put it differently, you are not always the same person, and you are less consistent over time than you think. But somewhat reassuringly, you are more similar to yourself yesterday than you are to another person today.

counties are different from other counties for a reason, that there must be a cause that explains this difference. As we shall see, however

It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.

?i noi to?i, care ne uitam în sus, am în?eles deodat? ce înseamn? lejeritatea. Am în?eles cum poate fi via?a pentru unul care face cu adev?rat ce î?i dore?te, nu crede în nimic ?i nu ascult? de nimeni. Am priceput cum ar fi s? fii un astfel de om ?i am mai priceput c? noi nu vom fi niciodat? astfel de oameni.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

We slough off the responsibility to create ourselves by shrugging and claiming, "That's just the way I am.

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

never trying to change others, but rather giving them the freedom to be as they are and seeing the beauty in them as is.

We don't always see ourselves as superior, but we almost always see ourselves as unique. Even when we do precisely what others do, we tend to think that we're doing it for unique reasons.

We don't always see ourselves as superior, but we almost always see ourselves as unique.

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams," Mr. Plumbean said. - The Big Orange Splot

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said "What will you be? What will you do?" I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.

Plus il m´est donné de me pencher sur les difficultés d´un grand nombre de personnes, plus il m´apparaît clairement que chacun de nous est comparable à une gigantesque bibliothèque. Chaque chapitre d´un seul de ses livres serait alors semblable à une vie entière tandis que chacune des pages du chapitre en question comprendrait des post-scriptum renvoyant à d´autres chapitres, à d´autres livres, à l´infini.

Por causa disso tudo é que decidi, quando estava com 9 anos de idade, que, ao me tornar adulto, não seria índio, e sim um ser humano civilizado, capacitado para contribuir com o meu país. O que eu não sabia, no entanto, é que ser índio era algo que estava inscrito dentro de mim; não bastava dizer palavras mágicas para isso desaparecer.

The quest for this simple bliss, free from dogmas and religious beliefs, from submission to a priesthood, and from the hope of being sanctified by others, is the object of each person's search.

Everything that we abandon in the false dream of conforming to a system is precisely what will subsequently come along and block our path.

Belonging to groups often generates a kind of narcosis that gives us the illusion of sharing something missing from all the members of the group as individuals: completeness. Our main fear—fear of dissolution, of being nothing—keeps us from realizing that when we think we are one particular thing, and therefore isolated, we indeed become only that thing and lose the rest.

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

The Reader's Bill of Rights: The right to not read… to skip pages… to not finish… to reread… to read anything… to escapism… to read anywhere… to browse… to read out loud… to not defend your tastes.

Vuoi che ti dica una cosa? Più lo si analizza, corpo moderno, più lo si esibisce, meno esso esiste. Annullato, in misura inversamente proporzionale alla sua esposizione.

3. El derecho a no terminar un libro ¿El libro se nos cae de las manos? Que se caiga. La gran novela que se nos recite no es necesariamente más difícil que otra. No hay química. Pero ¿Cómo es posible que no le guste Stendhal? Es posible.