205 quotes found
“Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.”
“for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is differentand to herd our differencesunder one lawdegrades each self.”
“If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperatel...”
“Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain?Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone elses.”
“Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -”
“Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own.”
“In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.”
“You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.”
“The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”
“How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.”
“We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.”
“But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually; individuality arises from living without fear of ...”
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no...”
“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.”
“So, Don't Mix Up Your Way To Write Your Life Story With Others, Then Definitely It Won't Sell. You Only Know What You're Encountering In Every Single Step. Everyone's Shoes Won't Fit In Your Feet....”
“Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.”
“Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: u...”
“People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.”
“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.”
