Quotes About Individuality

When a man starts out to build a world, he starts first with himself.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Do I look like I need a fucking group hug?

Doing some late-night home improvements, my man? (...) For what it's worth, I never had any use for that froufrou French shit, either." - Tegan

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones … who burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the sky.

Oh for the love of God put a butt plug in the male tough-guy crap.

You look like Eidolon," she said quietly. "But you're so different." He grunted. "All Seminus demons are nearly identical to their siblings, but our behavior varies because we're raised by different species." "But . . . Wraith. He's blond." "Bleached." "His eyes are blue." "That's because they aren't his." "They aren't his eyes?"

I'm not exactly a half-breed." Wraith said. "More of a freak of nature. But my mate is fangy, so my lips are sealed.

So that's who you want me to be? The innocent, sweet, shy girl you say I was?" She stormed over to the bed and snatched up the robe again. "Because I can't be her. I can't be anything but me. I love you, but I won't change who I am for anyone." She tied the robe around her waist and spread her arms wide. "This is me. You either love me for who I am, or you find someone else to love.

I grow weird in the field

After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.

I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

As D. H. Lawrence trenchantly put it, "Hate is not the opposite of love, the opposite of love is individuality.

Because, when you got right down to the real nitty-gritty, I didn't really want to be anything other than what I am.

That has a funny sound, but I knew there was value in it for me, because the world left me alone, and I liked that. I liked my solitude, my individuality, being alone on the street. I had playmates, and we did plenty of things together, but there was this general feeling of singularity. When I would go downtown on my own, I wasn't chattering with a lot of people about, "look at this, look at that." My mind was doing all the processing.