Quotes About Individuality

Genius is not about conforming to societal norms, but about breaking free from them and forging new paths.

Only in very special individuals is there a sense of a past continuous self.

A closer examination of the facts would have shown that hordes of perfectly free men and women enjoying equal authority, status and access to resources of every kind, including each other's sexuality, have never existed and probably could not have existed. To paraphrase Hobbes, perfect equality, like its concomitant perfect liberty, can only exist when each individual lives alone in a desert, where it is meaningless.

Herman Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener.

it is more properly understood as a masking of the self that is a constructed identity, a character. When the ego is too dominant, it prevents people from knowing their true identity and, as a result, interferes with an individual's ability to make informed and clear distinctions between authentic reality and contrived reality, and to act accordingly.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Anna Karenina A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. François Rabelais, 1494-1553

If a man can't give you more than you can give yourself, then dump him.

We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can.

Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours.

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.

Once we realize that our essential sweetness is in our minds, and that each of us has unique life-path potential not fully tethered to a body-determined route, then it is as sensible to be transhuman as it is to be transgendered. The being is mightier than the gene.

tout est dans la nature si une personne essaye de vous changer ses quel ne vous aime pas vraiment de la facon que vous êtes rellement

We just go where we want to go, do what we want to do, and become who we want to become. We want to be unique, but we want to be unique in groups. We want to stand out, but we want to stand out together. In the age of easy group-forming, the basic unit of measurement is not the segment but the tribe.

1) Who are you? 2) What do you do? 3) Why does it matter?

They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind. So I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.

Per un attimo penso di non risponderle. Alla fine però lo faccio. Magari non sembrerà granché coerente, ma cerco di spiegare che invidiavo Uman perché sapeva spezzare i vincoli che la vita ci impone. Perché sapeva essere quello che voleva e se ne fregava di cosa gli altri pensavano di lui. Che conoscere Uman mi aveva fatto capire quanto ero diventata prevedibile.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn'" - Uman Padeem

Not on the inside. On the inside, Gloria, you're a kaleidoscope of pink and purple.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Don't minimize yourself and think about colors .. live your life appreciating black and white and you will grow peacefully in colors!

Basically it means there is no one correct view of the universe. We each see things from our own frame of reference.

hi my name is luke, it rhymes with puke!