Quotes About Individuality

He laughed. "You must remember that we are also valuable not only in action but because we are more than the sum of our memories.

Sometimes when there aren't any other options you should just stay crazy.

There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.

When Julia was twenty-nine, her hair was already bar-coded. Now, at sixty-two, it was a solid helmet of bright pewter, level with her lean, brown jawbone.

No one is exempt and everyone's pain has a different smell. At night, when all the colours die, they hide in pairs and read about themselves— in colour, with their eyelids shut.

I am not no swine," Archie said. He spread peanut butter on his bread, dotted it with cream cheese and jam, added a piece of ham, and finally topped it with a wedge of banana. "Because a swine is two or more pigs, and I'm only one pig." He added an olive to his masterpiece by way of garnish, and bit off a good quarter of it.

Everyone deserves to walk their own path.

Find out who you are, and live that life.

See, everyone here's afraid of something and nuthin. This town, that's how they live, and they don't even know it. They stick to what they know, what they bin told. They don't unnerstand that it's just a choice you make.

Fitting in also poses another, related kind of identity problem: being accepted means they have to give up or at least hide some of the values and attitudes they acquired overseas, the qualities that now set them apart.

Live your life in any way, London says. It encourages defiance. I loved what it gave me, who it allowed me to be.

Apposite here is a saying attributed to Einstein: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Jesus died for his own sins, not mine.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic...

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

From the minute you start school, you're fed a bunch of lies: Be yourself. Don't follow the crowd, blah blah. What they really mean is: Follow the crowd. Just make sure it's the right one."' – Total Constant Order (208)

There was only one word—you. It applied to all people. Everyone equal. No one higher or lower than anyone else. No one more distant or more familiar. You. They. Me. I. Us. We. There were no words that changed from feminine to masculine and back again depending on the speaker. A person was from New York. Not a woman from New York, not a man from New York. Simply a person.

No deberías querer ser igual que todo el mundo. Entonces no serías tú misma".

I had learned by then that Maribel liked to think of herself as a rebel. And yet she managed only small insurrections.

Who could think that a person's entire being is housed in a finger or in a hip bone or in a small piece of a skull, and that the rest of the body exists for appearances only?

I don't need anyone's pity. My life has been what it has been. It's not a wonderful story, but it's mine.

Sobre audrey hapburn: Si hoy en dia sigue sindo un icono es por que una vez que encontro su look le fue fiel el resto de su vida. No cayo en la moda se reinventaba a si misma cada temporada. Adoraba la moda , pero la utilizaba como una herramienta para complementar su imagen Dijo de ella su hijo sean

Si no me quiere tal como soy lo siento mucho, pero no voy a cambiar. Sissi, Emperatriz de Austria