Quotes About Individuality

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don't know why you and not someone else.

I reckon we all have to play different parts for different people. Sometimes I think the only time we can really be ourselves is when we're all alone with nobody to disappoint.

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

You'll see. I have a collection of fine waistcoats and a handsome face." He stepped back to let her take in the full effect of both and her smile spread to the edge of a laugh.

I've never understood it. That is always the first thing someone asks: Where are you from. Not 'What do you like?' or 'What do you believe?' or even 'What is your mother like?' which all have more bearing on the person I am. And if I don't tell them where I'm from, they try to guess.... It drives them mad, as if to know me they need to know where I am from.

We don't have to take other people's behaviors as reflections of our self-worth. We don't have to be embarrassed if someone we love chooses to behave inappropriately. It's normal to react that way, but we don't have to continue to feel embarrassed and less than if someone else continues to behave inappropriately. Each person is responsible for his or her behavior.

En tots els meus personatges hi ha característiques meves, però cap dels meus personatges no és jo.

Tots els homes són iguals de qui sap quines maneres.

There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind.

what you love, doesn't matter what it is, or who it is—that's your heart and spirit, that's you. Don't let anybody talk you out of it, don't let anybody get in its way. Otherwise you live with a hole in your heart." Then

It's not until a woman gets loose and comfortable inside her own skin that she's comfortable wrapping it around a man." Mina

Some of us are the designated rememberers,

A young homosexual friend recently said, "It's no secret that you, that one, has such-and-such color hair, is yea high, weighs thus and so, and so on, but when you keep one part of yourself secret, that becomes the most important part of you." And that is true, I think; it may be the most important truth of all.

Never pretend to understand what you don't understand," Orion used to say, "and never let anybody tell you you should like something. You can educate your taste, but you can't change it. So trust it.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same

in the work of R. D. Laing, who questioned the social construction of mental illness: "Setting the sick apart sustains the fantasy that we are whole." The

Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

But—what if other women decide they want to do what he did? Just stop being women and become men instead? There will be an epidemic. Everyone will want to be a man." I was very quiet. She had just revealed a lot about how she felt as a Mormon woman.

do things because you think it's right not because others do.

You are who you are, and no one can change that. So be yourself, because no one can do it better.

O senhor não tem cor, Doutor. As pessoas não têm cores. Ou têm cores que não têm nome.

Toda a roupa recebe a alma de quem a usa.