Quotes About Individuality

Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.

Do you begrudge me that I am who I truly am? Should I pretend otherwise for the sake of pleasing you? If I did, it would be a lie. Would you rather love a lie than know me as I truly am?

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity.

What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself.

She did not understand why humans longed for so much intense contact. Were their own thoughts never sufficient for them? Why did they look for others to fulfill their needs instead of simply taking care of themselves?

He wished his own respect for her was enough to make her see her own worth, and he recognized the selfishness of that wish. He could not be her entire world

Sometimes I feel I am two people, reaching after two different lives. Or rather, joined to you, I am a different person from who I am when we are apart. When we are together, I lose Ã¢â'¬Â¦ something. I don't know what to call it. My ability to be only myself.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

I had learned, yet again, that I could not serve the Farseers and still claim a life for myself. Not this again, Changer. How could the moments of your life belong to anyone but you? You are the Farseers, blood and pack. See the whole of it. It is neither a binding nor a separation. The pack is the whole of you. The wolf's life is in the pack.

Ah, Fitz, Fitz, we are who we are and who we ever must be.

You and I, we are like buds grafted onto a tree. We can grow true to ourselves, but only so much as our roots will allow us

And that is what you would truly wish, little one? To stop being yourself, before you have even completed yourself? There is so much more you could grow to be.

Girls think strangely

No. Not tonight. Not by impulse, not without thought, No. It did not matter what others did. She had to think for herself about such things.

I am simply saying that you should not lock your dreams onto a child or a man. Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives, but have no bonds to them. Do you think that to bond or not to bond is for you alone to decide? My heart is my own. I give it where I will. I will not give it to one who thrusts me aside.

I don't think any two pains are ever exactly the same, Hap. But the part about being a fool, oh, yes.

The pain was just a part of all that. I had lives before this one, and they are just as much mine as this. I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon.

Be your blood, boy, and ignore what anyone else thinks of you.

How many doesn't matter after one," Chade had said. "We know what we are. Quantity makes you neither better nor worse.

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity." p. 293 Fitz to Bee

She was a dragon, not a mindless mud salamander.

Some say 'a dog' or 'a horse' as if every one of them is like every other. I've heard a man call a mare he had owned for seven years 'it' as if he were speaking of a chair. I've never understood that. One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

Sa help us all, but I plan to give her free rein and let her be as unpleasant and bitchy as only she knows how.