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

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

Don’t you have any concept of individuality?” she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with her internal states.”Individuality is an unnecessary barrier to information transfer,” says the ghost, morphing into its original form, a translucent reflection of her own body. “It reduces the efficiency of a capitalist economy. A large block of the DMZ...

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking...

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

No need for everyone to look the same. The secret is to wear what suits you best!

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did...

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

How come you’re so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko’s answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.

Milk should be homogenized-not people.

It’s a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

The unique must be fulfilled.

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, ‘She wants her cup of stars.’Indeed yes, Eleanor thought; indeed, so do I; a cup of stars, of course.’Her little cup,’ the mother was explaining,...

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn’t fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel… the moment you feel, you’re nobody ― but-yourself ― in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ― means to fight the hardest battle which any human...

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. “It’s the painting of a dutiful...

We mature not by years, but by stories…” Cinderella In Focus:Cindy’s Secret

…no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

The accident of our lives bruises The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

Do not be afraid to color outside the lines. Take risks and do not be afraid to fail. Know that when the world knocks you down, the best revenge is to get up and continue forging ahead.Do not be afraid to be different or to stand up for what’s right. Never quiet your voice to...

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Style is when they’re running you out of town and you make it look like you’re leading the parade.

Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up on as potential espionage cues. Russians, on the other hand, were too orderly by nature to make such distractions appear...

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly?...

Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.

I was thinking, and realised how simple my goal has been— just to be me! I didn’t want to be a good person and change the world; I just wanted to be me! Against all odds, I wanted to make sure that I turned out as myself and not into my family, my society, my...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is as good as a man,” without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we...

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn’t happen.

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It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you’re homeless and depressed But home is where the heart is So your real home’s in your chest Everyone’s a hero in their own way...

Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on...

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual.” – Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins