Quotes about Individuality
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry to put down dissent and originality.
I have no regrets. I wouldn`t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
My mother said to me, `If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.` Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I`m going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Don`t lose who you are in the blur of the stars!
Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing,
It`s okay not to be okay.
Sometimes it`s hard to follow your heart.
Tears don`t mean you`re losing, everybody`s bruising,
Just be true to who you are!
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life.
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.