457 Quotes About Individual

Each individual needs to be pregnant with the seed of purpose.

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns.

Everyone ought to decide his or her own fate.

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

The moment you realize that you aren't creating a cut-and-paste version of yourself, but rather nurturing a stunningly unique individual with thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears and opinions and preferences and plans and interests of their own is the moment parenting becomes an adventure instead of a challenge. It's a simple shift in perspective that creates a world of difference.

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?