Quotes About Individuality

Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people's expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adult who can stand up for your own choices frees you to accept yourself as you are.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

You have intellect, and courage, and command. Play your own game, and don't worry about what anyone else is doing. That is what's going to give you a shot at making it. Comparing yourself to anyone else will just drive you crazy.

I do not make the rules [. . .] This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them

Now, I'm not the sort to find fault in myself just because others do;

The word "autistic" is accurate. But so are other words that we no longer use to describe people: spinster (unmarried woman), hobo (migrant worker), cripple (person with a physical handicap), and so on. The fact that a person is unmarried or has sustained a mobility-reducing injury or birth defect certainly figures into their life experiences, but it does not define their character—unless they or we let it.

In a widely read New York Times article in December 2004, Jack Thomas, a tenth grader with Asperger's syndrome, got the world's attention by stating, "We don't have a disease, so we can't be cured. This is just the way we are.

My autism is part of who I am, not all of who I am.

Adults often think that fair means impartial, equitable, unbiased. Family rules, school rules, and team rules apply to each sibling, student, or teammate equally. But autism un- levels the playing field. It potholes the field. All things are not being equal. So our thinking on the subject of fair must change. Here it is: Fair does not mean everything is equal. Fair is when everyone gets what they need.

I'll never forget a story I heard years ago about a whirling dervish of a girl with ADHD, nine years old. Her teacher proposed a deal, a reward for meeting a behavioral goal. If the girl could "be good" for three weeks, the teacher would buy her an ice cream cone. The girl reported to her therapist: "Is she kidding? I can't 'be good' for three hours, let alone three weeks. And besides, I don't like ice cream.

the 34th, gently explaining that the doctrine of equal shares for all could not always be maintained, since the needs of one might exceed the needs

Robert Bossu they called him, Robert the Hunchback

If I won't be myself, who will?

and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions.

A car for every purse and purpose.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

The trouble with most photographers, and for that matter also with painters, and other people, is, that they are always trying to do something which is outside of themselves. In consequence they produce nothing that means anything to those who have the gift or intuition for truth: all else is really not worth a tinker's damn.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.