Quotes About Individuality

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

I find it obscene that countries have fallen apart and people are now organized on the basis of the order of their molecules and the waves they emit. I

Earth people made him uncomfortable, particularly in groups.

They had their lives, and I had mine. I liked most of all pretending to be a biologist, and pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic, even if only from a distance

We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.

I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.

the true idea intended to be embodied in the title—les États Unis, or los Estados Unidos—the States united. It was without any change of title—still as "United States"—without any sacrifice of individuality—without any compromise of sovereignty—that the same parties entered into a new and amended compact with one another under the present Constitution

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.

Él es el artista; yo, la anarquista.

Surround yourself with things that amaze you, and you'll forget about comparing yourself to others.

I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn't measure our talents or our looks; He doesn't measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.

Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough.

The moment you have a self there is the temptation to put it forward, to put it first and at the center of things. And the more we are--socially or intellectually or politically or economically--the greater the risk of increasing self-worship.

I am, I suppose, a mystic. I have never been at home in organized religion, but have had to find my own path and decipher my own truths. Without either Jung or alchemy, though, my efforts would have failed.