150 quotes found
“We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute...”
“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circu...”
“It is easy to conform, but it takes great courage to stand up for peace.”
“You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.”
“Blindly believing something often comes from societal conformity which is a sign of a lack of deep knowledge and imaginative consciousness.”
“Am I a prisoner of my thoughts?Am I a prisoner of my societal conformity?Who am I?How conscious am I?Am I conscious or obnoxious?”
“When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities.”
“However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they'...”
“[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station ...”
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civil...”
“For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibiliti...”
“The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear.”
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.”
“Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.”
“What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.”
“It is precisely when their interior worlds change shape that Bezukhov and Bolkonsky are confirmed as individuals; that they surprise; that they make themselves different; that their freedom catches...”
“The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar o...”
“Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.”
“Society demands not conformity, but the appearance of conformity. That's the reason for hypocrisy.”
