#duality

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves. ↗

— Peter V. Brett

#confidence #individuality #confidence

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

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#far #hard #how #how far #in the past

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#closely #concerned #helped #i #i can

Sol closed his eyes, tilted his head up for a moment before opening them and meeting my dazed gaze. He leaned his forehead against mine, and said the last thing I ever expected. "I've been searching my entire life for you." I burst out laughing. I couldn’t help it that had to be the funniest thing anyone had ever said to me…ever. I rested my hand on my stomach, and was bent over at the waist when I heard him clear his throat. I looked up, immediately sobered and stood tall, staring him in the eye. "Does that line generally work well for you?" I asked with as straight a face as I could manage. He shifted his weight, raised his hands in mid-air and said, "Usually. Women tend to fall at my feet, and beg me to take them home." "Arrogance and egotism know no bounds, I see." "When you've lived as long as I have, you take your kicks where you can get them. ↗

— E.R. Pierce

#duality #er-pierce #home