205 quotes found
“Have you ever played chess, Kitty?I eyed her. What did a board game have to do with this? Not really.You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it, she said. Its a game of strategy, mos...”
“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, the...”
“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 wh...”
“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.”
“What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?”
“The internet: always proving that you're not quite as special as you suspected.”
“We're unique in ways that can't be imagined, but you'll never know until you rid yourself of comparison.”
“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.”
“I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.”
“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.”
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
“...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.”
“Your power is in your individuality, in being exactly who you area.”
“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”
“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while...”
“In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.”
“So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally.”
“The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That's concrete individuality: an individua...”
“The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.'How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you f...”
“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.”
