Quotes About Individuality

Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life.

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

Your books are arranged by the color of their spines, she said. How stupid.

Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.

What do you think is going on?' 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.

I've lived long enough to know I'm not one-hundred-percent anything!

I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world, so I was silent.

It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.

I walked through Long Island City, Woodside, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

Aloneness isn't loneliness.

I had to do it for myself.

It was not until very much in the posterior that I understanded that each of us was laughing for a different reason, for our own reason, and that not on of those reasons had a thing to do with the potato.

I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

Not making a decision —eating "like everyone else" —is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic. Without question, in most places and in most times, to decide one's diet by not deciding —to eat like everyone else —was probably a fine idea.

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls?

The lucky individual that finds a different seed, or nook, or niche, will fly up and out from beneath the Sisyphean rock of competition. It will tend to flourish and so will its descendants—that is, those that inherit the lucky character that had set it a little apart. Individuals that diverge from the madding crowd will tend to prosper, while the rest will be ground down.

Cada uno de nuestros duelos es único y cada manera de afrontarlos es irrepetible…

Alguien que no se anima a ser quien es por miedo a que lo rechacen, que no se anima a sentir lo que siente porque le parece que está mal, que no se anima a pensar lo que piensa o a decirlo porque tiene miedo de ser rechazado, alguien que no corre riesgos porque no se banca las responsabilidades y que no sale a buscar lo que necesita sino que se lo pide a otro, alguien así no llega a ser una persona y, por lo tanto, vamos a tener que pensar que es un individuo.

Todas nuestras neurosis empiezan cuando tratamos de ser lo que no somos.

Estoy hablando de no vivir temblando ante la fantasía de ser rechazado por aquellos con los cuales no acuerdo. Estoy hablando, finalmente, del coraje de ser quien soy.

aceptar que el otro es quien es no signifique que nos guste o que estemos de acuerdo; significa reconocer que así son las cosas y resistir la tentación de tratar de cambiar al otro o imponer nuestro criterio.

En nuestra cultura se confunden las cosas. No se acepta que pueda querer mucho a mi pareja y a la vez que pueda disfrutar con otras personas. Partimos siempre de la falsa idea de que la persona adecuada puede y debe darme todo lo que necesito.

Las personas somos un paquete completo y amar es poder aceptar al otro como un solo paquete, quererlo como es, sin intentar cambiarlo. En fin, todo un desafío... que empieza por uno mismo. Aceptarte empieza por aceptarme.