Quotes About Individuality

We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.

I have seen evil and I know its ploy: to steal your personhood, your singular God-given identity.

Besides, when it came to being colorful...we invisible kids learned to carry our colors on the inside

who was a lot more than just the sum of their weaknesses.

No humans have ever lived as we do.

If Lenin walked around the offices of a company like Yahoo or Intel or Cisco, he'd think communism had won. Everyone would be wearing the same clothes, have the same kind of office (or rather, cubicle) with the same furnishings, and address one another by their first names instead of by honorifics. Everything would seem exactly as he'd predicted, until he looked at their bank accounts. Oops.

Keep your identity small.

You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions but also of entire world views, he is the inventor of entire forms of life.

I don't tweet or blog or order pizza with arugula on top. You won't find my mug on Facebook or Instagram. I don't have a life coach, an aroma therapist, or a manicurist, and I sure as hell don't do Pilates.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

He had strawberry blond hair. That's enough right there. That's all you need to know. If you're a man with strawberry blond hair and you're not in the circus or a Viking, odds are you have not found your place in life and never will.

I never wanted to be Mickey Rourke. I don't think he did either.

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.

And whenever he's busy trying to be all he can be, he forgets about trying to be all we can be.

State your name." "Venice Huber." "Occupation?" "Well, it's hard to say. I don't model, land of the seventeen bimbos. I don't act—after all, isn't an actress just a model who won't shut up? Let's say, oh—homemaker. Could you die?

A person's bathroom, I believe, is the only three-dimensional expression of their soul.

No flower is quite like another of the same species. On a single bush one is constantly surprised by the remarkable character shown by each individual rose. But from the house all one sees is a garden, which is all there is to it anyway in the long run.

that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become. I

The truth about oneself was not 'something given, something which we have to discover – it is something we must create ourselves'. Even

Perjalanan itu bersifat pribadi. Kalaupun aku berjalan bersamamu, perjalananmu bukanlah perjalananku.

as Henry James had said in a letter to a do-gooding friend, "Only don't, I beseech you, generalize too much in these sympathies and tendernesses—remember that every life is a special problem which is not yours but another's, and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own.

Normal, nice people don't become writers.

the conceit of the long-distance traveler is the belief that he is going so far, he will be alone—inconceivable that another person has the same good idea.