Quotes About Individuality

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years." The question still hangs heavy in the air: If our behavior is not making us happy, why do we act this way?

We are told that standardized testing must be imposed to make sure students meet a set of standardized criteria so they will later be able to fit into a world that is itself increasingly standardized. Never are we asked, of course, whether it's good to standardrize children (sorry, I mean students), knowledge, or the larger world.

If you're comfortable with who you are, however, it becomes no problem to let others be their own selves around you: you have faith that whoever they are and whatever they do, you will be able to respond appropriately.

God got me steppin' different, I'm not under an obligation to do something the same way the crowd is moving. -MillYentei

Hey! To those who can still see and think clearly for themselves. You all better quit letting disapproving ordinary individuals tell you that you have to be a certain age to make wealth by creating your own music. -MillYentei

Not the king of anyone else. I call my self a King because indeed I am a King of I myself only. -DeShawn Yeldell / MillYentei

The difference between me and them, they constantly look up to each other; I look up to legends. -MillYentei

You can't mix your own shine with people who are already shining expecting your shine to be noticed by the world, in all reality you're just keeping them on top in the light.

You have those people who are born old fashion and there are others who are born with the drip for life. MillYentei

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Depend on no one else to give you what you want

Krishna's son, Samba, is portrayed in the scriptures as an irresponsible lout, perhaps to inform us that the child of a great man need not be a great man; greatness is not transmitted through the generations. Every man ultimately makes or destroys his own legacy.

Identity based on what we have is aham, not atma.

Your reality is different from my reality, because your body is different, your filters are different, your experiences are different, your knowledge is different.

In the karmic worldview, you are queer because of karma, and it may be a boon or curse. In the one-life worldview, you are queer because you choose to be so, to express your individuality or to defy authority (Greek mythology) or God/Devil wills it so (biblical mythology).

Here the world has no beginning, no end, no value, no purpose. All meaning is created by humans, individually and collectively: the boundaries we establish and fight over.

Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them

Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them,' said Ram.

My deha is different from yours. My hungers are different from yours. My assumptions are different from yours. My capabilities are different from yours. My experiences are diferent from yours. My expressions are different from yours.

The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

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