Quotes About Individuality

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

Like resilience, self-organization is often sacrificed for purposes of short-term productivity and stability. Productivity and stability are the usual excuses for turning creative human beings into mechanical adjuncts to production processes. Or for narrowing the genetic variability of crop plants. Or for establishing bureaucracies and theories of knowledge that treat people as if they were only numbers. Self-organization

Wear pink!' her mother had said. 'It confuses the enemy.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.

We've got enough folks spouting those words around here. It's to the point now where even if I wanted to get married, I would resist just to keep from running with the herd.

He'd found Brodie hand sanding the hull of a sailboat he was in the early stages of building, using an old-fashioned hand lathe on the wood. Cooper had questioned him about it, surprised that he wasn't building the boat up in the big boathouses on land, and using something more high-tech to get the job done. Brodie had just smiled and told him that some boats required a more personal touch and a more personal space. Cooper understood that. Some women needed the same.

People are like snowflakes, no two are ever alike.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a great writer. He said that a person never experiences the same kind of love twice. That means what we have with each other is not like anything either of us has had with anyone else. I like that idea.

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think, 'oh, I love this picture because it's universal.' 'I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.' That's not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing," Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?" "Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl," said Bloom.

Indigos express their "rage against the machine" in many different ways. Fashion

Indigos disrespect and dislike anyone who's disingenuous. Indigos can feel phoniness in other people, and they won't be phony themselves. Indigos would rather be punished than say something contrary to their feelings. You

I'd much rather have a brain of my own than be popular.

And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds—nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.

Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

I struggle again to draw this man's face in a crowd of faces: which dog-eared lines and frayed adjectives do I use? How do I sketch his visage, the way he looked to me then, at first sight, still mysterious? Among countless pairs of brown eyes, how to distinguish those two soft, open, wise ones, their gaze alert but slightly awkward, marveling? How to outline the lips, nose, brows, chin, so that I can see them afresh, as simple as a portrait on a cafe napkin?

have meant anything to anyone except me. So what?

When you didn't live in a strict corporate world, you didn't have to worry about fitting in and being politically correct all the time. You could afford the luxuries of self-expression. We took advantage of self-expression in spades.