Quotes About Individuality

Like men, some grow best in company, striving to outdo the rest. Others need to grow their own way, though it may be lonely. Both have value.

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there might be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

NAXALT" fallacy, for "Not All [X] Are Like That." The NAXALT fallacy is the mistaken belief that because someone in the group lies at the extreme, the average does not exist.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

People are so codified - it's sad.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Dans la vie on ne fait pas ce que l'on veut mais on est responsable de ce que l'on est.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

What was there in the world more Western than Mozart, more civilized, more perfect? No eight hundred thousand voices could drone their chant to Mozart's notes. Mozart had never written to stir the masses, but to touch the heart of each single human being, in his private self.

Mozart nunca escribió para conmover a las masas, sino para tocar el corazón de cada ser humano en su intimidad

Everybody has his reasons.

Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.

People called her wild, but she wasn't. Not really. She just didn't give a shit what they thought. Maybe that was what they found so unforgivable in the end.

Es más, existen muchas "diosas" en un sola mujer. Cuanto más complicada es ésta, más probable es que haya muchas "diosas" activas en ella. Y lo que es satisfactorio para una parte de sí misma puede ser irrelevante para otra parte.

Sentirse auténtico significa ser libre para desarrollar rasgos y potenciales que son predisposiciones innatas. Cuando somos aceptados y se nos permite ser auténticos, es posible tener autoestima y autenticidad a un mismo tiempo.

When we have rigid theories about what makes people the way they are and we project our theories onto patients and clients, insisting that our reality is their reality, we do the same thing their parents did. This is the wounding shadow of authority that says, 'I know what your story is and I know its meaning,' and it robs the person of the opportunity to discover this. This is a risk for anyone in a leadership role.

La psique de una mujer Atenea es similar al aspecto no convencional de los vestidos "de buen tono": prácticos, duraderos, de calidad permanente y no influidos por los cambios de la moda.

She'd permed her hair to within an inch of its life. When she moved her head, the mass of hair followed along behind her a split second later." Perhaps you had to live through the late 70's, early 80's to appreciate this.

She didn't look like Louise. She didn't look much like anybody except herself.

Because what were older women meant to do with themselves, besides prop up everybody else's lives and drink too much wine at book club meetings? No one, Laura was convinced, was as invisible and as easily dismissed as the tribe of women like herself, with short gray hair and glasses.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

I am not at all the sort of girl he would normally go out with. But maybe now there is not so much choice—well, anyway. We shall see.

Do not worry, Mummy. Jesus loves me as I am." I imagine that the little boy thought: Jesus loves me as I am. I do not have to be different from what I am. I do not have to be what my uncle wants me to be. I do not have to be what mummy would have wanted me to be. I do not even have to be what I would have liked to be. Jesus does not care about my disability.

In a relationship of communion, you are you and I am I; I have my identity and you have yours. I must be myself and you must be yourself. We are called to grow together, each one becoming more fully himself or herself. Communion, in fact, gives the freedom to grow. It is not possessiveness. It entails a deep listening to others, helping them to become more fully themselves.