Quotes About Individual

Any individual entity that presumes to understand the rules that guide this space is under an illusion.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply the presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone. Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure, she thought, another chance in life.

Each day came forth from the hand of God newly created and alive with opportunities to do His will. We for our part, can accept and offer back to God every prayer, work, and suffering of the day, no matter how insignificant or unspectacular they may seem to us. Between God and the individual soul, however, there are no insignificant moments: this is the mystery of divine providence."—WALTER CISZEK

Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage.

When a client enters therapy with a prior diagnosis, it might be difficult for the therapist to think outside of the box presented. One reason a dissociative individual might have several different diagnoses, however, is that as different parts present, they may also be presenting with diagnostic issues that are different from the host. Such differences especially make sense given the nature of DID.

the ways of doing things or speaking can be judged incorrect by some external standard. But often critics—male and female—want their intimates to adhere to standards that are not absolute but simply reflect their own cultural conventions, or even their individual habits and styles. And what seems "illogical" is often an expression of a different rather than a lapsed logic.

The soul journey has been called the pathless path because there is no map. Every person's steps are different.

The messages of love may not be clear to anyone else around you, even those most intimate to you. That doesn't matter; they are meant for you and you alone. Be assured of that.

Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.

There is a triple purpose to the existence of White privilege: (1) to advantage White Americans, (2) to disadvantage persons of color, and (3) to attribute causes to individual deficiencies, thereby relieving White society of responsibility for perpetuating inequality.

As long as biases remain hidden, however, responsibility for change at the individual, institutional, and societal levels can be avoided. The invisibility of White racial superiority and minority inferiority is a well-kept secret as long as people are not allowed to talk about it.

Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he's even read some of them twice . What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?

They feed you." "I eat people . They don't give me people to eat. They give me animals. That's barbaric. At least people have a fighting chance to get away. The animals they give me are already dead. It's sickening, that's what it is." "Annis, you're a unique individual.

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

?Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.

Every man shall bear his own burden.

Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.