Quotes About Individuality

He nacido libre, he vivido libre y moriré libre. Cristina de Suecia

Hay gente a quien su desnudez la viste -digo- , y hay gente que, al vestirse, se queda sola.

Las afinidades son moneda antigua: falsas señas de identidad del deseo: nunca en ningún lugar un deseo fue igual a otro.

Our job isn't to turn our bulb down to make the person next to us more comfortable. Our job is to turn our bulb up and give the next person permission to do the same. Warren did that.

It's alright. It's okay if it's about your ego. Sometimes it's got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.

I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.

She knew he cared for her... but that it didn't matter. They each had to follow their own road.

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

First: Ruby • Second: Coral • Third: Citrine • Fourth: Emerald • Fifth: Sapphire • Sixth: Amethyst • Seventh: Diamond • Eighth: Silver • Ninth: Gold • Tenth: Agate • Eleventh: Rose quartz • Twelfth: Personal to you

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

On the up side, the fruit of her "blackness" is a feisty independence that makes its presence felt throughout the poem. She tends her own garden, has her own freedom, and makes her own choices. In a world geared toward the silencing of women's voices, her own voice speaks loud and clear.

Everyone's always on the hunt for a mirror. It's basic psychology. You want to see yourself reflected in others. Others—your sister, your parents—they want to look at you and see themselves. They want you to be a flattering reflection of them—and vice-versa. It's normal. I suppose it's really normal if you're a twin. But being somebody else's mirror? That is not your job." Nora

It's not your job to be anyone's mirror.

They're all kind of weird." "Everybody's kind of weird.

Sometimes, a gal just can't have too many men. Maya

I'm wolf." So shove that down your throat and choke on it.

Some people were just meant to be alone.

One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all creatures different for His own purposes. A horse was not a cat and a cat was not a dog, and only a fool would want them to be.

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

I may be heaven-sent, bit I'm not perfect