Quotes About Individuality

La gente se vuelve rara cuando pasa demasiado tiempo sola

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard

A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.

People are all purpose tokens, but you must remember each adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, integrates… in its unique way. It is difficult and unfair to use generalized laws.

Schneiderman (alias David Britton alias David Henry)

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

America where there is the little old ramshackle victoria in the south, where cigars are smoked on the street in the north; where there are no proof-readers, no silkworms, no digressions; the wild man's land; grassless, linksless, languageless country in which letters are written not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand, but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

San Josemaría fomentaba un clima vital abierto, en el que cada uno pudiera manifestarse sencillamente como era, y en el que se respetaran las opiniones de unos y otros. Detestaba la tiranía, «porque es contraria a la dignidad de la persona humana»

That should be my epitaph when I die 'she did not have to do it'.

Jeg følte mig (og føler mig stadig) ansvarlig for at have sat dem i verden, men jeg var ved at lære, at jeg under ingen omstændigheder skulle føle mig ansvarlig for deres individualitet. De var ikke mig og jeg var ikke dem. Jeg skulle lære dem at kende, ligesom de skulle lære mig at kende.

But a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of expressing them, appears to be regarded by everyone in authority as much worse than the worst criminal, and all the 'jacks-in-office' unite to kick him to death if they can.

Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

Don't wait until you find someone. You are someone.

Just because someone doesn't like what you do doesn't mean no one else will. A person's opinion is not The Truth, it's their truth.

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. — Kathleen Tierney Andrews, author

Altering your behavior or being someone different from who you are is a recipe for disaster. He is attracted to you—the real you—just the way you are, not to some woman who has no life except for him.

Comparschläger: noun; a self-inflicted poison. Activates when you compare yourself to others and end up feeling worthless. Analogous to Goldschläger, the disgusting cinnamon-flavored schnapps with gold flakes that, when ingested in large quantities, makes you puke.

Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.

Accettare di non essere come gli altri, e così continuare la propria strada come si sente che sia giusto, esige in realtà una grande rettitudine e molto coraggio.