#con

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#expectations #conformity

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#normality #conformity

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#conformity #future #history #mainstream #new-orleans

All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard. ↗

— David Hume

#conformity

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. ↗

— Varg Vikernes

#individuality #subculture #conformity

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#conformity #conformity

Names have power. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#names #power #names

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. ↗

— Joseph T. Hallinan

#depression #psychology #realists #psychology

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#realization

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#self-control #aspiration