transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?”Sometimes.”So why don’t you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.’But this is my voice. How would you be...

I’m an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Nothing is the same.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things....

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 desperately to fit in...

Genocide of the soul occurs when everyone else expects conformity based on false beliefs, that we should all think the same, act the same and aspire to be the same.—Tammy Wooster

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before...

I’m a human being and I’ve got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn’t know is there, and he’ll never know what’s there because he’s stupid. I suppose you’ll laugh at...

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who...

To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and education will play a large part in influencing our formulation of this world view, but is...

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)

Giving style” to one’s character – a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan...

Fuck I hate fucksWho think they’re so fucking greatThey know everything about fucking,When they’re just fucking fucks fucking!And no one changes the fucking worldWhen they keep fucking to another fuck’s fuck.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different

It’s so hard to express yourself.’ I understand this.’I want to express myself.’The same is true for me.’ I’m looking for my voice.’ It’s in your mouth.’ I want to do something I’m not ashamed...

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...

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you...

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This...

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn’t stop anyone.

When we are content and secure in ourselves, it leaves with having no desire to set ourselves up as superior to anyone else. When we simply celebrate our own individuality we allow others to do...

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give...

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...

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

You call me the unhuman,” it might say to him, “and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself...

When I say “I,” I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of...

It’s idealistic, it’s for love and gentleness, it’s close to nature, it hurts nobody, it’s voluntary. I can’t see anything wrong with any of that.”Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be...

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?

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

It’s good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn’t correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn’t fall...

Well, to tell you the truth, I’ve thought of it often and often before, but he’s such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all – you can’t imagine what a jovial good fellow he is...

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it’s the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different...

The same way a compact disk isn’t responsible for what’s recorded on it, that’s how we are. You’re about as free to act as a programmed computer. You’re about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

Everyone’s different, and in that way everyone’s the same. Stand out by sitting down. Try my love seat—it’s made for two people, so you can be comfortably obese.

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience…. If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.