Quotes About Individuality

Io mi sento me stesso solamente quando sono solo. Il rapporto con gli altri non mi viene naturale: mi richiede uno sforzo.

Being alone is a basic need of mine like food and water, but I realize it is not so for others.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.

To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn't mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.

I hear Aslan's words to Shasta: "'Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story. . . . I tell no one any story but his own.

followers of Jesus always have and always will meet Jesus and see him from where they are and they will experience Jesus differently as a result.

Pick a gender and stick with it, guys.

but whereas her contemporaries were thickening out, ready for their century of toil on the land, she remained slim and agile.

Pompous old farts need to have the piss taken out of them every now and then." She put her hands together in Buddhist fashion, and crossed her eyes. "It puts them in touch with their Oneness.

Ideologues are welcome to live with the values they admire, I have no problem with that, but you have to give the next generation the freedom and ability to go their own way. Anything else is fascism.

Humans are so fascinating, aren't we? If ten of us are each given our own piano, we'll play eleven different tunes.

They now advised me to stay at home, take a job and behave myself. Which meant to me, stay at home and be dull and never do a thing you have not seen thousands of others do in the exact same way.

octopuses, far more than rats and pigeons, have their own ideas:

For an octopus, its arms are partly self

It's not her fault,' she said. 'Nobody knows how to grieve in this country. They don't make any noise. Nobody taught them how. I don't want to be that way.

He would return again and again to the same themes over the years, with different details and different emphases, but always with the same underlying message: the inherent nobility not so much of man as of FREEDOM, and the implied responsibility - no, the OBLIGATION - for each of us to be as different as our individuated natures allowed us to be. To be different, in Sam's words, IN THE EXTREME.

Do you want to attend to this book or do you want to read by yourself?" The student responded, "Read by myself.

Well, maybe I can't draw, but I CAN sign my name

Die Ansicht, dass Kinder offen sind, dass ihr inneres Wesen sozusagen pur aus ihnen heraussickert, ist weit verbreitet. Das ist falsch. Niemand hält sich bedeckter als ein Kind, niemand muss es so sehr sein. Als Antwort auf eine Welt, die dauernd mit dem Büchsenöffner ankommt, um nachzuschauen, was es in sich hat, ob es nicht vielleicht gegen eine gängigere Konserve eingetauscht werden sollte.

I saw how pure, in a way, they were – no matter what they had done. Each in their own way they had tried to stay what they were. Not like me, who had never been anything, and so had been trying all my life to be someone else. To come inside. I saw that they understood this, too. That they understood it and that it was okay. That, even so, I mattered, come what may.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

SheAlmighty had tuned each person in a musical key, and Kasper could hear it. Best in the brief, unguarded moments when people were nearby but didn't yet know he was listening. So he waited by the window, as he was doing now.

I'm wearing a pair of high boots, a red turtleneck sweater, a sealskin coat from Groenlandia, and a skirt from Scottish Corner. I've learned that it's always easier to explain things if you're nicely dressed.

Increasingly I'm convinced that in a primitive society someone like me would have been clubbed to death quite early on just for being annoying.