individual QUOTES

― Susan Polis Schutz

2 " To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things. "

― Rainer Maria Rilke , Letters to a Young Poet

3 " Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected. "

― Roman Payne , Cities & Countries

4 " Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love. "

― Criss Jami , Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

5 " Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. "

― , The Light in the Heart

6 " All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance. "

7 " All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." (first published 1937)] "

8 " In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! "

― Karl Marx , Critique of the Gotha Program

9 " The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.

You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level.
It's got to happen inside first. "

― Jim Morrison , The Collected Works of Jim Morrison

10 " Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross. "

― Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

11 " An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "

― Martin Luther King Jr.

12 " A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. "

― Daisaku Ikeda , The Human Revolution (The Human Revolution, #1-12)

13 " Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy.But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time it returns, you get a quick poke in the eye or jab in the stomach. The memory of being unhappy has the power to hurt us long after the fact. We feel the injury anew each and every time we think of it. "

14 " If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. "

― Charles M. Schulz

15 " Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne

16 " When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. "

17 " Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. "

― H.L. Mencken , Notes on Democracy

18 " The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. "

― Ayn Rand

19 " The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible "

― William S. Burroughs

20 " It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. "

― Voltaire

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