#individuality

The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1) ↗

— Confucius

#individuality #marriage

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

tetaplah prinsipil walau berada diantara berbagai pemikiran yang bertolak belakang ↗

— Kartika Nirmala

#inspiration #life #inspirational

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#inspirational #misattributed #self-acceptance #inspirational

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#inspirational #success #inspirational

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. ↗

— Confucius

#inspiration #validation #inspirational

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#independence #individuality #inspirational #self-assurance #self-awareness

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#freedom-of-thought #individuality #freedom

You will never be the best copycat in the world but you can be the best you ↗

— Uknown

#inspirational #unique #inspirational

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #idolatry #individuality #legacy #love