Quotes About Individuality

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

Recordemos que los placeres para los que viven millones de personas difieren, quizá, en su concepto de lo que constituye el verdadero placer, pero todos coinciden en tratar de obtenerlo por sobre todas las cosas.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. … You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you." – Kahlil Gibran, "On Children" from The Prophet

Hell's different things to different people and different things to the same person at different times.

I am not the we of anyone

You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him by the fact that he has two legs, two arms, and an indecipherable face. Man, woman, what difference does it make? Are they not all exactly the same, these little black insects with their rhythmic movements, the same eyes, the same thoughts?

the differences among them were great, but the reasons they had come to be so different were slight.

That's you," Wrath said. You shall be called the Black Dagger warrior Dhestroyer, descended of Wrath son of Wrath." "But you'll always be Butch to us," Rhage cut in. "As well as hard-ass. Smart-ass. Royal pain in the ass. You know, whatever the situation calls for. I think as long as there's an ASS in there, it'll be accurate." "How about bASStard?" Z suggested. "Nice. I feel that.

She made a good point. So did her nipples.

The road my elders dictate is a narrow one, and I no longer believe it to be the road to wisdom. I choose my ow road. I choose to do the right thing, as you call it. I would not choose another companion for that road, and should you choose to walk that road with me, it would be..," his voice faltered, unable to put words to Alain's feelings, but he met her eyes, trying to let his feelings show. Perhaps he succeeded this time, because once again Mari blushed and bent her head.

Every person is special," Kira insisted. "Every person deserves dignity and respect, and being thought of as something that matters.

you want me to tell you that the people who know you don't think you could do the sort of stuff your mother did. But the truth is, they think you're a whole lot more than you think you are.

I'm not worth millions of lives, Jason." "You are to me! And…and to your mom and dad!" Kira raised her head up enough to turn it to look at him. "Jason, my mother always says that no one counts for more than anyone else, and my father says that every person is a reality, something special and unique that helps form the world we think we see around us. I can't believe I matter more than so many other people.

I just want to be like everyone else, Jason. But I can't. And I can't be like my mother, either. So what am I?" "The most amazing girl I ever met," Jason said.

You — no one else!

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman. MAX LUCADO

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. George S. Patton

En el mundo futuro, nadie me preguntará: "¿Por qué no fuiste Moisés?". Deberían preguntarme: "¿Por qué no fuiste Zusya?". Rabino Zusya

What others think about you is none of your business.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Smith. Jones. Who the fuck cares? It's not your real name anyway.

If I try to teach you what I do, you will fail because you are not me. If you hang around me, you will observe what I do, and you may pick up some good habits. But there are a lot of things you will want to do differently. Colm O'Shea

The house is a bit of a monster, and slowly you belong to it and begin to function in it like living furniture that gets rearranged—you become another gear inside the machine of the house, or a hand puppet to your parents. You won't find freedom until you find yourself in a place that doesn't own you.

Do you think I'm weird because I'm wired, or wired because I'm wierd?