Quotes About Individual

They had come to her slowly at first, the children—their lives separate and precious, each one a miracle as individual as a snowflake caught on a mittened palm.

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Complicating matters even further, on a day-to-day basis, in the same individual, the sensory sensitivities can change, especially when the person is tired or stressed. These

The diagnosis of autism can sometimes help you better predict a child's behaviors, but it tells you nothing about their specific way of thinking, their idiosyncrasies, their strengths, or their individual personality.

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

We are strangers; we write as individual captive Martians.

Any vital, individual, social, or moral process that goes in this direction and leads to the fulfillment of the person according to his own nature is truly ascending.

That the divinities can do little for men, that man is fundamentally the artificer of his own destiny, even of his development beyond this world—this characteristic view held by original Buddhism demonstrates its difference from some later forms, especially the Mahayana schools, into which infiltrated the idea of a power on high busying itself with mankind in order to lead each individual to salvation.

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.

He reminded MacLeish of the "profound part that culture and society play in the very definition of human values, human salvation and liberation." Therefore, "I think that what is needed is something far subtler than the emancipation of the individual from society; it involves, with an awareness that the past one hundred and fifty years have rendered progressively more acute, the basic dependence of man on his fellows.

The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state. Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

Every step of the way throughout my life as an athlete and activist, I felt my father's large hand on my shoulder guiding me down a path of service and justice. When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -Bayard Rustin

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

In 'Jonaki,' it isn't about the individual actor. The actor is as important as the wall, or the water flowing down the wall, or a shadow. That kind of acting is also fascinating to me, not to be invisible necessarily, but to be in perfect synchronicity with the environment.

Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

I have always felt that my issues are my issues.