Tuesday 29 January 2013

Individuality - Quotes

Each man must have his "I"; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. - Charles Horton Cooley
If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you. - Vincent O’Sulliva

It is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termite-like. - Stefan Zweig

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. - Libba Bray

Individuality is that which you bring into the world. - Osho

Individuality is the expression of the uniqueness of every soul and the sublime manifestation of its evolution. - Avikal Costantino

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route. - Tom Robbins

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. - Saul Alinsky

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else’s life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by. - Katherine Anne Porter

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. - Anais Nin

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honour him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. - Hermann Hesse

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