Quotes About Individuality

Revolutionary Petunias: Blooming Gloriously For its Self

the central concept of self-esteem – the belief that each person counts and can make a difference

I've never let myself dwell on what other people think of me......You can never change their minds so why waste time trying? Why agonize over it? better to concentrate on more important things.

I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

If I know my Rachel, she will do what she wants to do. And perhaps that is the best.

Life's first rule is very simple, be what you are. The way to this is the truth and this is the way to life.

The greatest human weakness is conformity to falsity.

There is no external condition we have to meet to realize our aspirations. We just need to be what we are.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

You at -all things considered- what you are. Put on your head perukes with myriad curls, stalk about on foot-high stilts, still what you are, you must always remain.

The likeness of a man is quite independent; everywhere that it stands, it stands for itself, and we do not require it to mark the site of a particular grave. But I must acknowledge to you to having a strange feeling; even to likenesses I have a kind of disinclination. Whenever I see them they seem to be silently reproaching me. They point to something far away from us,—gone from us; and they remind me how difficult it is to pay right honor to the present.

If the artists are so rich," replied Charlotte, "then tell me how it is that they are never able to escape from little obelisks, dwarf pillars, and urns for ashes? Instead of your thousand forms of which you boast, I have never seen anything but a thousand repetitions.

Inoltre apprezza più il mio ingegno e i miei talenti che non il mio cuore, che invece è il mio solo orgoglio ed è l'unica sorgente di tutto, di ogni energia, beatitudine e miseria... Ah, chiunque può sapere quello che so io... Ma il mio cuore l'ho soltanto io.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Volk und Knecht und Ãœberwinder Sie gestehen, zu jeder Zeit, Hoechtes Glueck der Erdenkinder Sei nur die Personlichkeit.

He had learned by experience that the motives and purposes by which men are influenced are far too various to be made to coalesce upon a single point, even on the most solid representations.

Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.

Isteže vieme, že na svete je dos? tvárí, ktoré príroda vytvorila bez dlhého uvažovania, nepoužila nijaké jemné nástroje, ako pilníky, dlátka, nebožiec, ale tesala iba nahrubo; zahnala sa sekerou a bol z toho nos, zahnala sa druhý, vznikli pery, ve?kým vrtákom vylúpla o?i, ni? neohob?ovala, a len vystr?ila na boží svet so slovami: Ži si!

Conviene saber que el capote de Akaki Akákievich también era objeto de las burlas de sus compañeros; hasta le habían privado del noble nombre de capote y lo denominaban bata.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.