#individuality

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. ↗

— Alex Grey

#individuality #prized #society #thinking #tries

If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it’s the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different angle. Every single person is going to be attracted to certain features and characteristics that are completely different than the next person. And… there isn’t a person on earth that everybody on earth finds attractive. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#beautiful #beauty #individuality #love #people

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#individuality #invention #beauty

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator. ↗

— Francis Chan

#individuality #value #worth #love

Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christ #compassion #consideration #discernment #distinction

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

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#individuality #maniacal #humor

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#differences #humor #individuality #humor

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#comparison #individuality #success #buddhism

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#individuality #knowledge #the-novel #biography