Individuality Quotes - Page 3

It's strange how easily we assume that others must be going in the same direction as us.

There is another more psychological obstacle to the full development of love in the modern world, and that is the fear that many people feel of not preserving their individuality in tact. This is a foolish and rather modern terror. Individuality is not an end in itself; it is something that must enter into fructifying contact with the world, and in so doing must lose its separateness. An individuality which is kept in a glass case withers, whereas on e that is freely expended in human contacts becomes enriched.

Bertrand Russell

Why--?" he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, "when they're so lovely--"She too looked at the girl, who was fastening a flower that had come undone in the front of her frock. She smiled. She said nothing. Then half consciously she echoed his question without a meaning in her echo, "Why?"He was dashed for a moment. It seemed to him that she refused to help him. And he wanted her to help him. Why should she not take the weight off his shoulders and give him what he longed for --assurance, certainty? Because she too was deformed like the rest of them? He looked down at her hands. They were strong hands; fine hands; but if it were a question, he thought, watching the fingers curl slightly, of "my" children, of "my" possession, it would be one rip down the belly; or teeth in the soft fur of the throat. We cannot help each other, he thought, we are all deformed. Yet, disagreeable as it was to him to remove her from the eminence upon which he placed her, perhaps she was right, he thought, and we who make idols of other people, who endow this man, that woman, with power to lead us, only add to the deformity, and stoop ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

Noam Chomsky

Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Everyone just wants to be like that Somebody else. Ironically, that Somebody wishes to just be like everyone else. If this is achieved, however, individuality is annihilated.

Ufuoma Apoki

If you're wonderful in any way somebody will fuck with you. Just like if you're horrible in any way they're gonna fuck with you. The world is for the average and the common. Those are the people who never hurt - they just fall asleep. The rest of us, we're The Walking Wounded.

Kim Fowley

What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?

Donald Miller

Courage is being yourself in a world that almost seems to endorse conformity.

Todd William

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.

Jerry Spinelli

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one.

Jerry Spinelli

Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now” from Cinderella In Focus

H.L. Balcomb

Your power is in your individuality, in being exactly who you area.

Jennifer Lopez

The complexity of the so-called individual that’s been praised for decades in America somehow has narrowed itself to the ‘me’. When I was a young girl we were called citizens – American citizens. We were second-class citizens, but that was the word. In the 50s and 60s they started calling us consumers. So we did – consume. Now they don’t use those words any more – it’s the American taxpayer and those are different attitudes.

Toni Morrison

Proudly buck the trend. Dare to be different.

Fennel Hudson

Be batty, be traditional, and be proud.

Fennel Hudson

We need some controversy every now and then. Without it, we would never know where we stand as individuals: with the crowd or by yourself.

K. Weikel

...at some indiscernible moment he sees all of us clearly — every face distinct, like immiscible droplets of water, all of us individuals constituting an interconnected sea of beings.

David Michael Miller

There are many fishes in the sea and then there are a few beautiful swishy mermaids. Me?! No I'm not the fish not even the mermaid, I don't belong to the sea. I am the Ocean! At a horizon far far away I'm a whirlpool of storm rising and chasing, twirling and dancing to my own tunes and at another all calm serene still and silent, I am the ocean! limitless boundless infinite and as beautiful as I may seem from the outside, I have life within!

Himanjali Singh

There are many fishes in the sea and then there are a few beautiful swishy mermaids. Me?! No, I'm not the fish not even the mermaid, I don't belong to the sea. I am the Ocean! At a horizon far far away I'm a whirlpool of a storm rising and chasing, twirling and dancing to my own tunes and at another all calm serene still and silent, I am the ocean! limitless boundless infinite and as beautiful as I may seem from the outside, I have life within!

Himanjali Singh

Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.

Rin Chupeco

I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars.

John Berger

This is the age of the individual and there is no reason to believe that this focus of mankind is likely to change in the foreseeable future. Hence, the mission is to put individualism inside a wide context and to give it meaning and a sense of direction; to empower it – but authentically this time.

Shai Tubali

We are same energies expressing in different forms!

Ramana Pemmaraju

So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

Erik Pevernagie

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

Douglas Pagels

Given that the Taliban is a Pashtun movement, the tendency of the Pashtun man to emphasize his individuality through disagreement rather than agreement will come to the fore after the disappearance of the already 'loose' authority of Mullah Omar.

Khaled Ahmed

To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy

rassool jibraeel snyman

The best life is a simple harmony between who you are and where you're going.

Garry Fitchett

Exercising your talents, passion, sense of judgment, and making a difference while doing something you love is the essence of life.

Garry Fitchett

Being in tune to one's Will and working accordingly shears the malaise of inauthenticity.

Garry Fitchett

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

A.E. Samaan

If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born

Hermann Hesse

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.

Stephen Richards

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.

James St. James

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

John Stuart Mill

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

Isabel Allende

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Aidan Chambers

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

Helen Oyeyemi

Believe it or not, some of us have piercings and tattoos and dye our hair because we think it looks pretty, not for any deep sociological reason. This isn't an act of protest against cultural or social repression. It's not a grand, deliberately defiant gesture against capitalists or feminists or any other social group. It's not even the fashion equivalent to sticking two fingers up at the world. The boring truth of it, Gabriel, is that I don't dress like this to hurt my parents or draw attention to myself or make a statement. I just do it because I think it looks nice. Disappointed?

Alex Bell

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

Dolly Parton

There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity.

Erica Jong

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

Deborah Harkness

In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another factor of contemporary life must be considered: the role of the work routine and the pleasure routine. Man becomes a 'nine to fiver', he is part of the labour force, or the bureaucratic force of clerks and managers. He has little initiative, his tasks are prescribed by the organisation of the work; there is even little difference between those high up on the ladder and those on the bottom. They all perform tasks prescribed by the whole structure of the organisation, at a prescribed speed, and in a prescribed manner. Even the feelings are prescribed: cheerfulness, tolerance, reliability, ambition, and an ability to get along with everybody without friction. Fun is routinised in similar, although not quite as drastic ways. Books are selected by the book clubs, movies by the film and theatre owners and the advertising slogans paid for by them; the rest is also uniform: the Sunday ride in the car, the television session, the card game, the social parties. From birth to death, from Monday to Monday, from morning to evening - all activities are routinised, and prefabricated. How should a man caught up in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and separateness?

Erich Fromm

The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage.(Analects 5.1)

Confucius

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

You can't shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he's done.

Captain Perverto

Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's important to fit in, because that similarity of identity is what defines the society. If you don't fit in, the consequences are psychological tragic, you stand alone when all you've ever known is being part of the group.

Jodi Picoult

I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.

Arbella Stuart

The internet: always proving that you're not quite as special as you suspected.

Robin Sloan

Only someone wishing to disappear would ever strive to 'fit in'.

Shaun Hick

We're unique in ways that can't be imagined, but you'll never know until you rid yourself of comparison.

Tyconis D. Allison Ty

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Eric Hoffer

Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

Varg Vikernes

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

Mary MacLane

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

Ruben Studdard

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

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