Quotes About Individuality

Só vi um, o Jõe Bexiguento, sobrechamado o Alpercatas: esse era homem de estranhez em muitos seus costumes

Naquele lugar existia uma mulher, por nome Maria Mutema, pessoa igual às outras, sem nenhuma diversidade.

Todos estão loucos, neste mundo? Porque a cabeça da gente é uma só, e as coisas que há e que estão para haver são demais de muitas, muito maiores diferentes, e a gente tem de necessitar de aumentar a cabeça, para o total.

Não falava isto por modéstia, que nem sequer considerava uma virtude respeitável, mas por honestidade e porque queria que vissem que não existem homens especiais e que o herói pode ser qualquer um, a depender de onde esteja, do que faça e de como o que faz é interpretado pelos outros.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entflien. Leg dich in deine Hände.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entfliehn. Leg dich in deine Hände.

When you are alone, you find out who you are capable of being.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.

I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

There's nothing wrong with having a different way of learning. What's wrong is when people blame you for it.

Yet such authenticity was part of [Sonia Sotomayor's] attraction. And she acknowledged what few other prominent figures revealed: she sometimes felt awkward and out of place. In her speeches, she talked about fighting the fear of missteps and failure. 'Like yourself. Like who you are,' she advised young people trying to make their way in the world.

Sonia] Sotomayor resisted comparisons with other justices, saying she considered them counterproductive. Speaking generally, she said that throughout her life she knew there would always be someone who would seem smarter, faster, and better. She said the comparisons she preferred were personal to her: 'Am I learning? Am I getting better?

Carl Jung: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, "That's good.

I don't believe in dieting.

You have to live with a painting as you do with a lover. It's that personal. You might want to change lovers. You might want to rearrange your paintings. That's the way it should be.

People ask me if I turn up at board meetings wearing tailored costumes in muted colors. Oh no, I say. I wear hot and shocking pink and lovely hats. I don't think any man ever did a poor job because he had an attractively dressed woman to look at. In fact, the sight probably challenges him to be his most brilliant self. But when it comes to the routine of the meeting I do exactly what the men do.

Better to walk through life simply and without masks, than to lose ourselves in the pursuit of identities that are purely cosmetic and commercial. Then, at least, we will be known for what we are rather than for what we are not.