Quotes About Individual

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.

No one else has an investment in your personal life as you do.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

Who ever heard of making pancakes or frittata for just one person?

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.

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In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Even though it seems like it's big business and impersonal, and "they" take care of it, it really isn't. There is no "they." It always comes down to an "I" of somebody, and in many cases, it's a principal.

In the Baptist faith, you choose to be baptized when you are ready. It's for believers only, and it's up to you. You don't just baptize an infant and make the decision for them, which is kind of cool because for a religion that can be painted as so confining, individual choice is a fundamental part of being Baptist.

To see himself without illusions would not be so difficult for the individual, were he not constantly exposed to being brain-washed and deprived of the faculty of critical thinking. He is made to think and feel things that he would not feel or think, were it not for uninterrupted suggestions and elaborate methods of conditioning.