Quotes About Individuality

Theo, do not become materialistic like Tersteeg. The problem is, Theo, my brother, not to let yourself be bound, no matter by what, especially not by a golden chain.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down.

To live is an art, we are all artists of our own lives.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

Don't worship saints or sinners, for both demand your soul, and each man's soul should be his own.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Matthew nodded. "Aunt Abby is one in a million. I agree with her. I think every individual should feel they alone are responsible for their thoughts and actions.

You can't do people's thinkin' and feelin' for dem, Rose. Some folks you ain't neber gonna figure out—you just got to accept them where they be. Dere ain't no way to get inside a person's head and figure out what makes them be the way they be. You just got to accept them.

Particularly difficult for partners is the reassertion of self, unless they have been very strong as individuals throughout the partnership. Learning to say 'I' instead of 'We' can be a painful task for two people who have grown into each other and become enmeshed.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Je suis plutôt King Kong que Kate Moss, comme fille. Je suis ce genre de femme qu'on n'épouse pas, avec qui on ne fait pas d'enfant, je parle de ma place de femme toujours trop tout ce qu'elle est, trop agressive, trop bruyante, trop grosse, trop brutale, trop hirsute, toujours trop virile, me dit-on.

I know that what girls do with their own clitorises in private isn't exactly my business, but this indifference to masturbation does bother me: if they don't touch themselves when they're alone, when do women connect with their own fantasies? How familiar are they with what really turns them on? And if you don't know that about yourself, what exactly do you know? What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?

Una mujer con estilo de puta le interesa a casi todo el mundo.