Quotes About Individuality

Luke mentioned that a lot of people go to the Kumbh Mela festival to 'find themselves'. That's a saying I've never understood. If I did want to find myself, I don't think I'd find me at a festival with 20 million other people. I hate crowds. The

The best thing about me is probably my eyes, but then I suppose my eyes would think that, as it's them that are looking at them.

Karl Pilkington

I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.' 'You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a compliment. 'Well, I've had years of practice.

Fox Corner - that's what we should call the house. No one else has a house with that name and shouldn't that be the point?' 'Really?' Hugh said doubtfully. 'It's a little whimsical, isn't it? It sounds like a children's story. The House at Fox Corner .' 'A little whimsy never hurt anyone.' 'Strictly speaking, though,' Hugh said, 'can a house be a corner? Isn't it at one?' So this is marriage, Sylvie thought.

On the outside of the bedroom door there was a plaque that said Valerie . On the way up, Jackson noticed that other bedrooms also had names - Eleanor, Lucy, Anna, Charlotte .Jackson wondered how you decided on a name for a room. Or a doll. Or a child, for that matter. The naming of dogs seemed even more perplexing.

I am a jewel. I am a drop of blood. I am Ruby Lennox!

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. You were either moved by it or you weren't.

They all chose Indian names for themselves. Teddy was Little Fox ("Naturally," Ursula said). Nancy was Little Wolf ("Honiahaka" in Cheyenne, Mrs. Shawcross said. She had a book she referred to). Mrs. Shawcross herself was Great White Eagle ("Oh, for heaven's sake," Sylvie said, "talk about hubris").

Some people were complete in themselves, as if born from the earth or the ocean, like some of the gods. Which was not a compliment. The gods were ruthlessly indifferent to humanity.

You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?)

Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.

There are as many preferences as there are men.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself