Quotes About Individuality

To say "we" and mean "I" is one of the most recondite insults.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

As pessoas não percebem o quanto não são livres lá onde mais livres se sentem, porque a regra de tal ausência de liberdade foi abstraída delas.

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.

few are so conformist as rebellious youth.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

We are nothing if we are not the sum total of our physique and the history of the actions of our physique--that we carry with us in body and in memory. (Body - Michael McClure)

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

A new way of looking is needed in a world which believes that every individual has a right to flower, within limits, in his or her own way.

Binding your self-worth to other people is a recipe for disaster.

STOP COMPARING YOURSELF WITH OTHERS

The quickest way to improve your self-esteem is to be yourself.

After a while, you find yourself waiting for that wrong note, you want to hear that wrong note, that subtle variance in pitch. People aren't machines. They make mistakes. They hit wrong notes.

Enid thought everybody was like her, they just didn't know it yet. And that someday they would come around, realizing what fools they'd always been by clinging to ideals that got them nowhere. Enid

I'd rather be a fool than a vulture feeding off other people.

Fear can keep us from living our lives the way they should be lived," Eddie said. "Don't ever let somebody else live your life." He

You may not know it, but then again, maybe you do, but your sister is a prostitute." "And that makes a difference?" He looked at her in a speculative way, as if he wondered what she did for a living. "My sister is a person. She deserves the same attention you would give anybody.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

The few, the proud, the bearded."