#individualism

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#individualism #preference #independence

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#individualism #irony #selfishness #tea #hell

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#life #race #life

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#individualism #practical #reaching #very #women

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#individualism #intense #known #mode #most

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. ↗

— Matthew Kelly

#individualism #life #p #life

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. ↗

— Joe Biden

#common #community #individualism #long #over

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#individualism #innocence #like #must #rather

Who would you be but who you are? ↗

— Terry Brooks

#fantasy #individualism #fantasy

It's not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn't do it. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#love