Non Conformity Quotes - Page 2

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  dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

  Kurt Cobain

  Dream, Simple Life, Want

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• Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

  Anais Nin

  Break Up, Creating, People

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• The longest journey is the journey inward.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Inspiration, Journey, Inward

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

  Paul Vixie

  Rebel, Path, Conformity

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• If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Inspirational, Writing, Giving

  Espana, 20 Nov. 1920

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• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

  George Eliot

  Country, Spiritual, Taken

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 3, ch. 24

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• My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

  Stockard Channing

  Girl, Normal, Conformity

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Rebel, Conformity

  L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel) pt. 1 (1951)

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• Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?

  Pablo Neruda

  Pain, Pride, Blood

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• Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

  Paula Sharp

  Dimensions, Conformity, Isolation

  Paula Sharp (2000). “I Loved You All”, Hyperion

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• If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Responsibility, Growth, Conformity

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• Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

  Paula Sharp

  Quality, Strange, Conformity

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• ... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that you had wickedness in you, you could learn to accept it, if not to wrestle against it. But if you believed that you were essentially good, then when you finally found the ocean of evil in yourself, surely it would come as a terrible shock.

  Paula Sharp

  Children, Ocean, Opposites

  Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• ... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

  Shuntaro Tanikawa

  Soul, Conformity, Wells

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• When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

  Rumi

  Conformity, Wells, Bottom

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• Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Conformity

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.267, Dial Press

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• But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

  Pablo Neruda

  Real, Hero, Self

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.475, Macmillan

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• You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.

  Jaleel White

  Being Yourself, Years, Fleeting

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• He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, People, Different

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• Our real journey in life is interior.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Journey, Conformity

  Thomas Merton (1975). “The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton”, p.296, New Directions Publishing

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• Is there an existence that is only mine?

  Russell Hoban

  Conformity, Existence, Mines

  Russell Hoban (2012). “Kleinzeit”, p.134, A&C Black

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• Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

  Alice Sebold

  Firsts, Conformity, Weirdness

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• ... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

  Shang Yang

  Independent, Ideas, Conformity

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• Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."

  Nancy Mairs

  Thinking, Differences, Being Different

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• He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

  Alan Cumming

  Different, Conformity, Easy

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