Quotes About Individuality

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

The face I saw always seemed to belong to a stranger - was it because I tried to please too many people too often, and had never given myself a chance to let my own personality come through on it?

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.

And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead.

Every life is a piece of art put together with all means available.

As one of my sons always says, "normal" is just a setting on a washing machine.)

she had her own boundaries, she'd no longer need the alternate personalities.

Peter hadn't been treated as a person, and so, eventually, he didn't experience himself as one.

Smart people are often too smart to take advice from others.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

To ask 'What should we do with our brain?' is above all to visualize the possibility of saying no to an afflicting economic, political, and mediatic culture that celebrates only the triumph of flexibility, blessing obedient individuals who have no greater merit than that of knowing how to bow their heads with a smile.

The value of your life is your own choosing,

The value of your life is your own choosing," Nathan

Not a one of us can be everything somebody else wants us to be. Trouble comes when we try to pretend we can. Or when people see it like a betrayal. You know. That somebody won't meet all their needs. My mom used to say it's because we weren't put here on earth to take care of each other. And that it's silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they're just being who they are. She said it's like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat.

sex is what you make it, and we have always made do. To assume sex must take place within touching distance seems, to me, limited thinking.

The value of your life is your own choosing," Nathan said.

It flitted through her mind without actual words that skin is an odd thing for the world to make a fuss about, especially when, with your eyes closed, it all feels more or less the same.

You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue.

I wondered if my life would have turned out all differently if my hair had been blonde and baby-fine. If I'd been naturally pretty and tall like the ladies across the road.

We're all just running around being exactly what we are.