Quotes About Individuality

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

My wife and I no longer have anything in common but our differences.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one

An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Life isn't about how popular you are... What girl or boy you are dating or who you know. Life is about always being true to who you are or what you believe in. Never let anyone convince you that their way is better than your way. In the end all we have is our hearts... and our minds. This is the reason why we sing... this is the reason why we cry... this is why we live.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

She had on men's clothes—the hat, britches, shirt, boots, even a six-gun she wore on her hip. It had never bothered her before Rylan Carstens. She wiped her eyes. It was sure enough bothering her now.

It's hard to think of you as a Margaret. Maizy suits you." "I doubt I'd answer to anything else." Maizy smiled as she adjusted the cloth.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

She was not just old—she was ancient. Bent and bony, no bigger than Selene, her flyaway white hair floated around her head like dandelions gone to seed. She'd wrapped herself in a thick knitted shawl of every imaginable color woven into complex patterns—a sun here, a moon there, stars all over, rivers and trees and birds and animals. A person could look at it all day and still find something he hadn't noticed before.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?

I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.