Quotes About Individuality

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. Since

stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

Encuentra a tu propio ser, nunca estés avergonzado por el ser que tú eres. Descúbrelo y comienza el cambio de ese ser.

El hombre, sin saber que su mundo es su conciencia individual exteriorizada, en vano se esfuerza por ajustarse a la opinión de los demás en lugar de ajustarse a la única opinión existente, es decir, su propio juicio de sí mismo.

I just want you all to know," quipped a platinum blond with obvious glee, "that sometimes being homosexual is a big pain in the ass.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

Ah," said Dr. Hart, "this is a pet theory of my own. The actual 'he' is known to nobody." "Does the actual 'he' even exist?" Jonathan returned. "May it not be argued that 'he' has no intrinsic reality since different selfs arise out of a conglomeration of selfs to meet different events?

Desirée wore black for her April Fool's party. On any other woman of her age it would have been a disastrous dress but, by virtue of a sort of inner effrontery, she got away with it. Her neck, her bosom and that dismal little region, known, prettily, as the armpit, were all so many statements of betrayal, but she triumphed over them and not so much took them in her own stride as obliged other people to take them in theirs.

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them.

He loved the strange privacy of being different.

was already different because I was a twin. Funny how you can say that: I am a twin. Not I am one of twins, but I actually am A Twin. Like there's two of me all the time, this other one right here beside me whether you can see him or not. Or as if you're saying, I'm a Half.

It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proof of the existence of a Creator.

When you're different you've got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

You could find these people then, remarkable originals, men and women who thrived on remoteness and kept alive the individuality of human genius.

Dad was always awkward in scenes like this. He was a Swain and Swains are not for joining in. They're not part of the General Population somehow. There's

Se sei diverso hai due possibilità: o ti distingui o cerchi di passare inosservato

Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it? So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.

Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can.