Quotes About Individuality

Sometimes when I ask people to tell me their story they tell me about their achievements, what they have acquired or built over a lifetime. So many of us do not know our own story. A story about who we are, not what we have done. About what we have faced to build what we have built, what we have drawn upon and risked to do it, what we have felt, thought, feared, and discovered through the events of our lives. The real story that belongs to us alone.

My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.

she had not yet learnt that the loneliest place in this world is the no-man's-land of sex.

For together with those who themselves being normal, had long put intellects above bodies, were writers, painters, musicians and scholars, men and women who, set apart from their birth, had determined to hack out a niche in existence.

This is better than being young Nelson,' thought Stephen, ' 'cause this way I'm happy just being myself.

Yes, it was trying to get her under, this world with its mighty self-satisfaction, with its smug rules of conduct, all made to be broken by those who strutted and preened themselves on being what they considered normal. They trod on the necks of those thousands of others who, for God knew what reason, were not made as they were; they prided themselves on their indignation, on what they proclaimed as their righteous judgments.

Joan has a right to love whom she likes, and to go where she likes and to work and be independent and happy, and if she can't be happy then she has a right to make her own unhappiness; it's a thousand times better to be unhappy in your own way than to be happy in someone else's.

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

she had been overweight but she knew plenty of other big girls who were popular and well-liked and had dates all the time.

It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me.

Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.

A person who requires others to fill in happiness in their lives or solely depends on others to full-fill their needs is a sign of a weak person.

Two common problems with our society: 1) We are forced to study what we are not passionate about. 2) We are forced to love what ever we get.

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

What will it be like to be one instead of half of two?

Laws" and "rules" imposed on you From days of old renown, Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new.

Laws" and "Rules" imposed on you From days of old renown. Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new. Always think your own thought. All other thoughts reject; Learn to use your own brain And boldly stand erect.

But the more I focused on my interests, the more it brought out things I liked about myself

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?