#dent

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking. ↗

— George MacDonald

#identity #individuality #creation

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#indiviuality #creation

Hay quienes quieren llegar a la luna, mientras nosotros aún estamos tratando de llegar a la aldea ↗

— Julius Nyerere

#africa

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#nonconformity #identity

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#identity

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#identity

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#identity

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#quantum-physics #identity

I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#identity

I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secret—but so is the fact that she admires me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#admiration #fact #identity #secret-admirer #women