Quotes About Individuality

One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you're afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.

better than me are you kinder than me are you sweeter smarter faster you you you prettier than me stronger than me lonelier than me I want to get to know you better and better

Así como un ave en su jaula. Así como un bebedor entre el bullicio de la medianoche, así he intentado ser libre, a mi manera.

Non passarono molti anni che sua madre cominciò a esercitare gli inalienabili diritti della menopausa. Si mise a indossare in casa a qualsiasi ora una pelliccia e gli occhiali da sole. Prima vi alluse soltanto e poi affermò esplicitamente di aver sacrificato una carriera come pianista concertista. Quando le veniva chiesto per il bene di chi, lei si rifiutava di rispondere e abbassava il termostato.

I bite my lip. I buy what I'm told: From the latest hit, To the wisdom of old. But I'm always alone. And my heart is like ice. And it's crowded and cold In my secret life.

and to hell with all the glories of loneliness.

And some women, Breavman thought, women like Shell, create [beauty] as they go along, changing not so much their faces as the air around them. They break down old rules of light and cannot be interpreted nor compared. They make every room original.

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, made up of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe.

Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture. They have no need for documentation of provenance. Wabi-sabi-ness in no way depends on knowledge of the creator's background or personality. In fact, it is best if the creator is no distinction, invisible, or anonymous.

Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn't matter whether the rank has to do with your grades, your weight or where you finished in the 800 meter race. Becoming a mature adult means, among other things, that you define yourself relative to your own potential, not relative somebody else's standard.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Lei è fascista? - Ma no, tutt'altro. - Non si offenda: lo siamo un po' tutti.

They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves.

How can anybody be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense?

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for themselves, instead of always being told what to do and think by advertisements, cinemas, policemen, and parliaments.

Darling stop being philosophical, it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

Isn't it enough that the world is full of ugly human beings without making copies of them?

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

A woman's character is her lack of character.

The hand of an artist should rescue you Ã¢â'¬â€œ you should not be submerged like all the rest of us and forever, without leaving a trace of your existence behind