A person can’t pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

the worst thing,” he told me,”is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a...

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more...

Life’s heartbeat…the soul seeds of opportunity” by Cinderella in Focus

To treat everyone equally is offensive, because it fails to recognize anyone as an individual.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way–in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel–really is lovely.

What’s truly important–and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn–is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people’s individuality. Just because they’re not on your path doesn’t mean they are on the wrong track.

If we wish to know about a man, we ask ‘what is his story–his real, inmost story?’–for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed,...

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

I can’t help remembering that good old wild Thoreau wound up a tame surveyor of Concord house lots. […] How would I know what it means? I don’t know what anything means. What it suggests...

What I am in the eyes of most people – a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person – somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of...

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.

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 the herd...

People stop by and it’s just a fun and informative atmosphere. We celebrate individuality and encourage people to celebrate who they are.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of...

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my...

The solitary speaks.”One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the...

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group — even murderers.

I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you,’ he said.’And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours...

I am now comfortable with standing in the beauty of my status as an unrepeatable and singular expression of humanity. I’ve become unwilling to discount the pieces of my soul that make me whole and...

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

Ja uopšte mislim da najčudniji ljudi izgledaju vrlo konvencionalno, vrlostandardno. Jer čovek koji je zaista čudan iznutra, onaj koji je u dubokomnesporazumu sa svetom koji ga ne prihvata i ne shvata, ne oseća nikakvupotrebu da...

When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself. When I speak of good eyesight, I do not mean looking at others; I mean simply...

Here’s what I believe. We have control over ourselves at every single moment. We don’t control the world. We don’t control other people (or at least, we shouldn’t.) But we are in control of our...

Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate....

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The...

When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficultto take chances in expressing our individuality.

I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity.

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

Gestalt PrayerI do my thing and you do yours.I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine.You are you, and...

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

There’s merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself.

You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same.

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the “only real subject,” the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established...

Be my God, so I can just be me.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

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.

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Nobody is so weird others can’t identify with them.

The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.