Quotes About Individuality

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Her room felt wonderful to her, as usual. She looked around with satisfaction… She imagined to herself that she would always live this way, even after she had grown up and moved away from her family. She planned to have exactly the same room wherever she was, because this room was her. No matter what happened out there in the rest of the world, she felt totally comfortable once she got into this room and closed the door.

It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him. "Why not?" "Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.

You are a unique beautiful soul - Louise Hay

You are a unique beautiful soul

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

How empty of me to be so full of you.

Usually what we believe is only someone else's opinion that we've accepted and incorporated into our own belief system.

She wanted to do this, too, but was afraid. I supported her totally and explained, "There is nobody like you. Just be yourself." I said, "Do it for the fun of it. There are people out there looking for exactly what you have to offer. Let them know you exist.

The one person I am with forever is me. My relationship with me is eternal. So I am my own best friend. I

Our fingerprints are different, and we are different. We are meant to be different. When we can accept this, then there is no competition and no comparison. To try to be like another is to shrivel our soul. We have come to this planet to express who we are.

the macrobiotic and the natural raw food diets are two totally different approaches. The raw food people never cook anything, seldom eat bread or grains, and are very careful not to eat fruits and vegetables at the same meal. And they never use salt. The macrobiotic people cook almost all of their food, have a different system of food combining, and use a lot of salt. Both systems work. Both systems have healed bodies. But neither system is good for everybody's body.

You are not here to please other people or to live your lives their way.

We often assume things about others to justify our resistance. We make statements such as: It wouldn't do any good anyway. My husband/wife won't understand. I would have to change my whole personality. Only crazy people go to therapists. They couldn't help me with my problem. They couldn't handle my anger. My case is different. I don't want to bother them. It will work itself out. Nobody else does it.

I have started the process of releasing the feeling of "being wrong" because they are not fitting someone else's standards.

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

I think you might try leading your life as though it's just you. If he comes back and you know your life will be better with him, then great. But you'll also know you're enough on your own.

He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.

Marcus Aurelius. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Four days. And she had two gay sons, a large black mother, a demented poet for a friend and was considering getting a duck. It was not what she'd expected from this visit.

like a living chant. Each of us individual notes. On our own, nothing. But together? Divine. We don't just sing, we are the song.

Their reasons are their own,' he finally said. 'I don't have to care.

At my age I've long since stopped caring what others think.