#ali

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#metaphor #individuality

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#reflection #individuality

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#individuality

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#individuality #mediocrity #soul #individuality

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#individuality

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me. ↗

— John Lennon

#individuality #individuality

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#rarity #royalty #individuality

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#brooding #guilt #morality #remorse #repentance

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#right-and-wrong #morals

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#environment #environmental-protection #materialism #possessions #environment