Quotes About Individuality

Never be cool. Never try to be cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Head for the warm people. Life is warm. You'll be cool when you're dead.

We are the subject in the sentence.

That was the depressing thing about knowing other albas. You realised that we weren't special. We weren't superheroes. We were just old. And that, in cases such as Hendrich, it didn't really matter how many years or decades or centuries had passed, because you were always living within the parameters of your personality. No expanse of time or place could change that. You could never escape yourself.

Nu pedepsesti pe nimeni in afara de tine daca tii ura inauntrul tau. Ceilalti sunt ceilalti. Tu esti tu.

Compare my life to the lives of other people.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it.

Your self-worth is not found inside the minds of other people.

didn't want to die. And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers. The one that could be a messy struggle, but it was her messy struggle. A beautiful messy struggle.

The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

Sometimes she feels like a third gender- preferring primary colors to pastels, the radio to singing. At least she's all mermaid: never gets tired of swimming, hates the thought of socks. -from "The Straight Forward Mermaid

For people who undergo religious conversions, individuality is replaced by ideology, and very little room is left for personal growth or expression.

This truth--to prove, and make thine own: Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.

Yes, in the sea of life enisled,With echoing straits between us thrown,Dotting the shoreless watery wild,We mortal millions live alone.

Be neither saint- nor sophist-led, but be a man!

We mortal millions live alone.

Yes: in the sea of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone .

No, thou art come too late, Empedocles! And the world hath the day, and must break thee, Not thou the world. With men thou canst not live, Their thoughts, their ways, their wishes, are not thine; And being lonely thou art miserable, For something has impair'd they spirit's strength, And dried its self-sufficing font of joy.

Is there no life, but these alone? Madman or slave, must man be one?

So while we praise and esteem the zeal of the Nonconformists in walking staunchly by the best light they have, and desire to take no whit from it, we seek to add to this what we call sweetness and light, and develope their full humanity more perfectly; and to seek this is certainly not to be the enemy of the Nonconformists.

Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color.