Quotes About Individuality

Uelskede børn er ofte underkastet voksnes normative tryk, som er stærkere end deres kærlighed. Børnene organiseres i stedet for at elskes,

Dove finisce uno Stato e dove inizia l'io? Siamo di nuovo qualcuno. In questa frase disturba quel 'di nuovo'. Per diventare finalmente qualcuno, bisogna prima essere stati nessuno.

Where does the state end and the self begin?

People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

His pain. His own. He made it.

Look ... to go through life and call it yours -- your life -- you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'...

You have your words, and I have mine.

The Valley of Understanding: Here we all choose a different way and different rules to disobey.

La cultura de masas presupone el fracaso de todo intento de hacer de uno alguien interesante, lo que significa hacerse mejor que los otros

a personal relationship in an impersonal world

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

I don't do terribly well when someone has an exact idea of how one of my goals should be accomplished. That doesn't allow me any latitude to make adjustments to suit my own style. I do well when I can draw my own map.

If you choose a craft or hobby, then make sure it's something you really enjoy. Do it because you want to, not because others expect it of you or because it's something you once liked or because you don't want those materials you bought to go to waste. just as you should choose the life you want, it's also your choice how you spend your free time.

You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births.

there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all survival strategy

If there's one thing I'm the world's greatest expert on, it's how it feels to be me. And

You're the first person I've seen here who's actually dressed like a monk." "It's a bathrobe.

He may have been wrong. I may have been. But that, that distance—that chronic sense of being an alien among your own kind—it's not entirely a bad thing.

Yet the questions persisted, in the minds of the laureates, in the angst of every horny fifteen-year-old on the planet. Am I nothing but sparking chemistry? Am I a magnet in the ether? I am more than my eyes, my ears, my tongue; I am the little thing behind those things, the thing looking out from inside. But who looks out from its eyes? What does it reduce to? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Seguid a los menos, y no al vulgo" (Petrarca)