Quotes About Individuality

La necesidad constante de ser algo diferente es lo más valioso que tenemos... ésa es la esencia de la pasión. Sin ella, sin pedido al cielo, comenzamos a envejecer, a repetir, a no arriesgar... a morir lentamente.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

something will only be perfect when no-one else is doing the same thing as you

I once heard someone say that it's no so much about finding your voice. It's about having the courage to use it.

Our culture often expects women in general, and fat women in particular, to confine and limit themselves. We are often discouraged, in many different ways, from moving freely, playfully, and happily in the world. We're not supposed to take up space and be visible and spontaneous and dynamic, colorful or loud or boisterous or rambunctious. Heaven knows we're not supposed to be fierce, physically unafraid, and fully aware of our own physical power.

Und während ich dich so anschaute, entdeckte ich all die wunderbaren Unvollkommenheiten an dir, deren unzählbare Menge die Menschen insgesamt und dich im besonderen ebenso liebebedürftig wie liebenswert und so einzigartig machen.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two.

Each little princess had her own little plot of garden where she could dig and plant just as she liked. One made her flower-bed in the shape of a whale, another thought it nice to have hers like a little mermaid; but the youngest made hers quite round like the sun, and she would only have flowers of a rosy hue like its beams.

But what did he see in the clear stream below? His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

His own image… was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn't mean that we are alone.

Alles ist Alleinsein.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

Cele mai multe dintre tensiunile si frustrarile noastre provin din nevoia compulsiva de a juca rolul unei persoane care nu suntem noi.

the mysterious character of providence, which does not stop at simply steering things "in general", but precisely pursues the individual, that which is distinguished from everything else, and dwells in the whole confusing particularity of the world.

the connection between being and person that is expressed in the word hypostasis.