#individual

Who would you be but who you are? ↗

— Terry Brooks

#fantasy #individualism #fantasy

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#humor #individuality #taste #humor

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives. ↗

— Julianne Davidow

#individual #lives #longing #love #merge

My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no one able to help us or hold us back. ↗

— Françoise Gilot

#death

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#change #individuality #life #variety #change

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#individuality #experience

Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability to change. Twenty-five key men destroyed could make the Soviet Union stagger, but we could lose our congress, our president, and our general staff and nothing much would have happened. We would go right on. In fact we might be better for it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#freedom #individuality #us-politics #change

only when the realization occurs that even between the closest of individuals infinate distances exist, a wonerfull growing side by can occur where each can love the other whole and against the wide sky. ↗

— marie Rainer-rice

#love #love

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #inspirational

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophy #men