Quotes About Individuality

To live alone, one must be a beast or a god — says Aristotle — leaving out the third case: that one must be both — a philosopher.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

And poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Racism & Gender Discrimination. — One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

I'm a bad girl — I read past my bedtime.

If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you.

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

We must be our own, before we can be another's.

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.

If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul.

My sexual preference is often.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.

If the shoe fits, buy it in every color!

But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Be a stone spiral staircase in a world full of escalators.

Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity.

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.

Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.