#duality

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

It's weird not to be weird. ↗

— John Lennon

#individualism #paradox #individuality

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#eccentricity #eels #fish #individuality #individuality

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#individuality #introspection #psychology #consciousness

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#individuality #expression

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#individuality

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