#individuality

Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#perspective #world #life

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. ↗

— William Golding

#later-in-life #truth #writing #life

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#individuality #peer-pressure #wisdom #wisdom

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#human-condition #humanity #individuality #uniqueness #perception

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#identity #individuality #read

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself. ↗

— Iain Pears

#individuality #search #self-awareness #self-reliance #dreams

Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#back #came #cute #enough #genius

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#american #emphasis #individuality #like #painting

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#defects #existence #individuality #necessary

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#accepted #animal #began #behaviour #hard