Quotes About Individuality

What?" EiLeen flinched. "I am not cute.

me." "That's exactly what she means. That's your own private zone where you create what

You'll waste a lot less time worrying about what others think of you if only you realized how seldom they do.' To this we might add Albert Camus' wise words: 'To be happy one must not be too concerned with the opinion of others. One should pursue one's goals single-mindedly, with a quiet confidence, without thinking of others.

Are you as lonely as Kaspar Hauser?" "Much worse than Kaspar Hauser. I'm as lonely as myself.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

The soul is not a single unity; that is what it is destined to become, and that is what we call 'immortality'. Your soul is still composed of many 'selves', just as a colony of ants is composed of many single ants. You bear within you the spiritual remains of many thousand ancestors, the heads of your line.

But since everything has its reason, and the fantasy of an individual seems to me just as legitimate as the appetite of a million men and capable of holding just as important a place in the world, we must… live for our vocation, climb up into our ivory tower, and there, like a dancer amid her perfumes, remain alone with our dreams.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

The individualities in the crowd who might possess a personality sufficiently strong to resist the suggestion are too few in number to struggle against the current. At the utmost, they may be able to attempt a diversion by means of different suggestions. It is in this way, for instance, that a happy expression, an image opportunely evoked, have occasionally deterred crowds from the most bloodthirsty acts.

Khi con ng??i n?m trong ?ám ?ông, k? ngu d?t và nhà bác h?c ??u không có kh? n?ng nh?n xét.

The psychological crowd is a provisional being formed of heterogeneous elements, which for a moment are combined, exactly as the cells which constitute a living body form by their reunion a new being which displays characteristics very different from those possessed by each of the cells singly.

Các dân t?c ??u b? tính cách c?a chính h? th?ng tr?; và t?t c? nh?ng thi?t ch? nào không ???c ?úc khuôn v?a v?n v?i tính cách ?y s? ch? là th? qu?n áo vay m??n, m?t th? gi? trang t?m th?i.

Bir ?rk?n ruhunu olu?turan bilinç d??? unsurlar, ona mensup tüm bireylerin birbirlerine benzemesini sa?larken farkl?la?malar?na yol açansa e?itimin ve özellikle de istisnai bir kal?t?m?n neticesine olan bilinçli unsurlard?r.

Cada mujer tiene su sonrisa propia y esa suave dilatación de los labios toma formas infinitas, perceptibles apenas, pero que les sirve de sello.

Yo quisiera forjar para cada uno de vosotros una maravillosa estrofa tejida de frases exquisitas, en la que os pudiérais envolver con orgullo, como en un manto de púrpura. Yo quisiera poder cincelar la forma que ha de conteneros, como se cincela el vaso de oro que ha de guardar un preciado perfume.

There is a style of life that gives a distinctive personality to one manner of being a Christian. This manner is in fact a limited manner, for no spirituality can claim to be the way to be a Christian. It is simply one way among others.

A Jesuit and a Franciscan are walking through a garden, silently engaged in prayer, when the Jesuit pulls out and lights up a big cigar. The Franciscan whispers, "My spiritual director says one should not smoke while one prays." The Jesuit replies, "Mine said it's all right if I pray while I smoke.")

Of the autistically interior, dreaming, reading, erotic, self-sufficient child in Balthus' painting we have practically no image at all. Balthus' children are not being driven to succeed where their parents failed, or to be popular, adjusted, or a somebody.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle's estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual's gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

Begin with the higher fact that you are not here on earth to live up to anyone's expectations—including your own. There is something much higher for you to be in this life than to spend your days doing what only strains and drains you. Your True Self knows that there is only one supreme command: you need never answer any demand that causes you pain or that asks you to sacrifice your integrity.

Living under the defeatist directions of the false self, we wrongly assume that the only way to reach real independence, real safety, is to look to someone else to take us there. It isn't in another's power to do for you what you must do for yourself. It never has been.

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.