Quotes About Individuality

Charles asked me to stay here, she said, rather than confronting Hosteen with his lie. "You aren't my Alpha-and even if you were, he can't make me do anything, either." She tappef herself in the chest with one of her needles and half sang, "Omega. Me." Dropping into her own voice she said, "As an Omega wolf, I don't have the urge to obey you. At all. Not even the tiniest bit. Don't worry, it makes the Merrick crazy too.

I like who I am - but there are plenty of men who wouldn't. (Mercy)

The thought of herself as decoration was absurd.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

Anna shook her head. 'Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

She dyed her hair orange, and it has these glittering purple strings in it

identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

And, as his father liked to say, identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

The last dragon was apparently still too young to have made up its mind which sex it wanted to be; it didn't have any horns at all.

What do you want then?" I asked. "I don't know all of it yet." William tilted his head back and looked up at the sky, and spread his arms wide. "But I want – first, I want to be me. And then I want to do something large. Something as large as all that country out there that people are settling. Even if I'm not a double seventh.

There are always people in any group who will go along with authority only so long as authority agrees with their opinions," Papa said.

Paradoxically, Controllers usually see themselves as self-reliant even while they are dependent upon others to maintain their backwards connections and their fragile identity. They often carry the banner of rugged independence, of needing no one, while launching an ever-accelerating assault upon someone else's individuality. They are most threatened by Witnesses who do not conform to their particular idea of how things should be.

Individually we have ever-increasing freedom to choose our own path on life's journey.

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

Looking not for "a self," that thing modernity keeps saying we're looking for when that is the last thing we need, choking on our individuality. Looking for his mind.

What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said.

My thoughts are my own—I will not modify them to receive the approval of others. My feelings are my own—I will not silence them to make others comfortable. My life is my own—I will not shape it according to the expectations of others. I live in harmony with my natural cycles, deepest wisdom, and truest self. And so it is.

Sometimes she saw herself as a one-woman rescue operation

Beatrice," said Grandfather softly. "Don't really see how Beatrice can have a name when her mother doesn't have one." "I think her name is Beatrice's Mother," said Mama. "What kind of a name is that?" asked Grandfather. "It's what we've got," said Mama with a smile.

I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.

I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.

It doesn't matter that nobody sees your face or knows your name, my wide eyed child, my father said to me. You know it. You be it. You are.