Quotes About Individuality

You cannot learn about yourself by studying what is expected of you by others — but only by asking yourself what you expect of yourself, and discovering for yourself in what direction your abilities lie. End

When the outer ego is narrow, and poorly represents these subdominant personalities then they rise up in arms, and when conditions are favorable attempt to express themselves through a momentary weakness on the part of the dominant ego. But without even doing this they may momentarily take over or express themselves through a single function, such as speech or motion, while the outer ego is blissfully unaware.

She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's intention or achievement.

I live in the desert of the heart. I can't love the whole damned world.

She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's intention or achievement.

But wrong, over and over again, wearing one ill-fitting uniform after another of the world's conventions. The only dress that ever suited her was her academic gown, but it was hardly appropriate for the daily occasions of her living.

Who you are shapes how you are loved.

The best that can happen to a girl, Claire, is to be a bit plain, like you. You think I'm being unkind, but I am telling you a truth. A plain girl has a longer time to herself, and when a man falls in love with her, he loves her for herself, for who she is.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

I'm not strange to myself, but I realize that I contrast with others fairly sharply.

When your parents don't like you, then you are free.

She dressed to look good, and I dressed for obscurity.

Once again, the curious thing was how strange and forceful the world was, how it battered and clanged and could not be withstood, and yet some individuals withstood it while others did not.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Papa wasn't like them, with lines like cursive writing up and down their faces.

Come, Ye Women: Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For if ye be but thirteen years, Ye've not been women long. And if ye be threescore and ten, No longer women be, Or so say all the merry men Who count so cruel-ly. But women we be from our birth, And will be till we die. Our counte is made so differently To give the men that lie. Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For we be women all through life, Where life and love are long.

Come, Ye Women Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For if ye be but thirteen years, Ye've not been women long. And if ye be threescore and ten, No longer women be, Or so say all the merry men Who count so cruel-ly. But women we be from our birth, And will be till we die. Our counte is made so differently To give the men that lie. Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For we be women all through life, Where life and love are long. THE

Hans was never good at giving proper answers. He always had different answers in his head, odd answers, answers that his teachers and his parents and his grandmother and even his crazy grandfather seemed to think were wrong. But they weren't wrong answers, they were just his answers. He wondered suddenly what the Ice Maiden would do if he gave her a wrong answer. And, thinking this, he found he couldn't open his mouth at all.

Leaping and looping with his little striped friends, verdi laughed and said I may be big and very green, but I'm still me!

How can we be so different and feel so much alike?

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing. Ranger

Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.

Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples? Helen Plum