Individuated Self Quotes

#1. Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.

Mark Epstein

#2. If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

David Levithan

#3. All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift

Sunday Adelaja

#4. I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

Sara Paretsky

#5. Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. There is no more individuated being in the system. We only ever have to deal with families of trajectories.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#7. I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

Robin Wright

#8. What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

Richard Branson

#9. If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish.

Joseph Goldstein

#10. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up.

Anne Lamott

#11. Affective life thus shows us that we are not only individuals, that our being is not reducible to our individuated being.

Muriel Combes

#12. For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.

Julian Lennon

#13. This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules - it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared. Or

Stephenie Meyer

#14. With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

Elizabeth Prioleau

#15. As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

Julia Child

#16. Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

Joyce Meyer

#17. This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

Billy Childish

#19. We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

Charles Stanley

#20. Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

Jerry Fodor