From Søren Kierkegaard: “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
Tag Archives: individuality
Quote of the day 10/02/25
From Śāntideva: “We are the authors of our own destiny; and being the authors, we are ultimately, perhaps frighteningly, free.”
Quote of the day 09/26/25
From Chrysippus: “If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.”
Quote of the day 08/24/25
From Haruki Murakami: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Quote of the day 07/23/25
From John Donne: “Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”
Quote of the day 07/08/25
From Alan Watts: “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
Quote of the day 12/27/24
From William Blake: “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
Quote of the day 12/16/24
From Bertrand Russell: “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Quote of the day 12/07/24
From Lao Tzu: “The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
Quote of the day 11/26/24
From Lao Tzu: “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
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