Quotes About Individuality

It wasn't enough. Not anymore. There had to be more to life than being put in the job that was most satisfying for you, living in the home that made you most comfortable, visiting the friends with whom you never fell out because it was impossible to disagree with them, marrying the partner who was totally compatible with you in every way, being happy in everything because happiness was compulsory. …

The dildo is long and elegant, a classic old school moon-rocket, complete with four stabilising fins at the bottom. Each fin controls a different haptic field. A silver pussy-rocket printed to the dimensions of her vagina and vulva. Not a penis. Never a penis. Ariel Corta has never allowed a penis inside her.

he could be anyone, anything, nuh? You want us all to get Social Counseling, eh? Everyone up in West One?

There is a value in unprogrammed elements in a programmed world

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Finally, Luther, Bunyan, and Thérèse all developed mature religious philosophies that differed from those of their communities because (from a psychiatric standpoint) each needed desperately to find a cure for obsessions and compulsions and, in order to do so, needed to find an entirely new perspective from which to view obsessional fears.

Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion?

Everyone, it seemed to him, lived their lives out of little boxes, opening different ones for different occasions. Nobody ever gave their whole self away. Cops were like that, each box a safety mechanism. Most people you met in the course of your life, you never even learned their names. Everybody was boxed off from everybody else. It was called society.

her face had decided long ago that make-up wasn't going to cure anything. Her

Ipseity is essentially just another way to say selfhood or individuality

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

It's just as well that bicycles don't suffer from inferiority complexes!' cracked Audrey.

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

He put on his silk shirts and his gators to go out and do his thing, you know?

Some people have something to say. Some people have to say something Avoid the second group.

Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.

Ser humano y mujer, ni más ni menos.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.