The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."
[Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)]
Tags: individuality life writing identity creative-process
People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.
Dave EggersTags: individuality
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 when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.'
'But should you wish yourself to be like him?'
'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.
Tags: individuality be-yourself flaws
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you...God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it--made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.
C.S. LewisTags: individuality love heaven uniqueness
Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations...
C.G. JungTags: individuality
ڕێگه نادهم كهس پياسه بكات لهناو مێشكم ، بهقاچه پيسهكانيهوه
Mahatma GandhiTags: individuality consciousness mind purity cleanliness corruption feet
The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.
Hugh MacLeodTags: individuality loneliness boredom
To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
Frank HerbertTags: individuality life existence humanity
Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.
Christa WolfTags: individuality power
We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.”
--Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990
Tags: fear individuality morality ignorance self-determination autonomy fear-of-unknown independent-thinking
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