Quotes About Individuality

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

nothing in the history of mankind is ever repeated, things that at first glance seem the same are scarcely even similar; each individual is a star unto himself, everything happens always and never, all things repeat themselves ad infinitum yet are unique.

Jer - a to je mislim osnovna poruka sastavlja?a "Enciklopedije" - nikad se ništa ne ponavlja u istoriji ljudskih bi?a, sve što se na prvi pogled ?ini da je isto jedva da je sli?no; svaki je ?ovek zvezda za sebe, sve se doga?a uvek i nikad, sve se ponavlja beskrajno i neponovljivo. (Stoga sastavlja?i "Enciklopedije mrtvih", tog veli?anstvenog spomenika razli?itosti, insistiraju na pojedina?nom, zato im je svako ljudsko stvorenje svetinja.)

bear in mind that interesting art doesn't come from trying to slavishly turn a photo into a drawing. Try to add as much as you can of your own to the image.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

In hospitality one size fits one!

But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules.

Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.

Follow your own star!

Naciste original, no mueras siendo una copia,

quieres. Frunces tu entrecejo, hablas duro y escondes tus dientes solo porque determinas hacerlo. Ríes si se te antoja o no ríes, porque tú y nadie más que tú así lo decides.

Never compare, thats the key for happyness. Learn from others but dont compare yourself to them, make your way and appreciate it.

Ce n'est qu'avec la nuance qu'on peut avancer. Je tiens la nuance pour la forme la plus persuasive qui soit, et parfois la plus subversive. Ne pas mettre tout dans le même panier est devenu une rareté qui confine, malheureusement peut-être, à l'originalité.

Sebbene lo Stato si ostini a dare un nome alle strade, la gente stabilisce i propri punti di riferimento in maniera del tutto autonoma. Una chiesa, una casa abbandonata, un parco, un edificio pubblico, uno stadio, un cimitero: qualunque cosa può andare bene. Ognuno insomma finisce per inventarsi una sua personale mappa urbana.

We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never do. Let's never get married. Let's never get fat. Let's never sleep with a married man. Let's never stop being students, even after we graduate. Let's never get dull-eyed and ironic. Let's never get stuck in a rut-- or trapped in a life we didn't choose. Let's never grow bitter.

I recalled a theory my father had concocted one night, while we sat in an Oakland juke joint sharing a plate of ribs. He'd said humor, above all else, was what bound each of us and separated each of us from one another. Humor was the great moment of truth. What we thought was funny was how we defined ourselves, and revealed ourselves, whether we knew it or not.

She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow, that something kept her from ever fully bridging the gap between who she was and who all these other people, making their way through the very same day, were.

It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.

the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. —ALBERT CAMUS

So I'll keep you wondering what time I'm arriving And you'll drive me crazy with your backseat driving And I'll talk in my sleep and you'll steal all the covers We'll argue it out and we'll call ourselves lovers And I'll stay in my body and you'll stay in your own 'Cause we know that we're born and we're dying alone. So we turn out the light while the sirens are screaming And we kiss for the waking, and then join the dreaming.

What makes the soul who it is, if not the choices the person makes while he's alive?

You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.

Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.