People seem to set there standards to high. They let Society distort there idea of finding that life partner.If you’re willing to let go of the conformity and individualize your ideas that’s when you will...

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do...

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else’s. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I’ve noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s...

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

Is it really so terrible being around us?”I blushed. “No,” I said. “But . . . it’s complicated. I’ve been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake.””The greatest changes in history...

Being a Individual means your views are your own, and they can’t be changed by those around you !

One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that’s not what it’s about. It can’t be about ‘My book sold more copies than your book.’ It can’t...

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Being — a state that is open to life yet connected to this moment” Cinderella in Focus: Cindy’s Secret

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another factor of contemporary life must be considered: the role of the work routine and the pleasure routine. Man becomes a...

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.

We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual.

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong...

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

I’m swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Expand yourselves; do not contract into your own tiny individuality.

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn’t just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.First...

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Why would I want to fit in?

The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.

I often warn people: “Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no “I” in team.’ What you should tell them is, ‘Maybe not. But there is an “I” in independence,...

Watch out for the average–they’re usually hiding something big.

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.

I just always want to be different – THE EXCEPTION – and this weekend knocked me right back to reality.And the reality is – I AM TRULY BLESSED ..

It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender equality – is to achieve that moment where eyes are opened so wide...

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know...

De fiecare dată c nd pronunţ uman, am în minte noţiunea de subuman.

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in...

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves...

If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it the soil it needs, the amount of moisture, the amount of care, but...

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

Take a good long look at The Lord’s Prayer. It’s all ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’. There is no ‘me’, ‘I’ or ‘mine’ anywhere.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.