Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

I love not having to rely on anyone.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism - they're all dictatorships. And I think any kind of dictatorship is bad for the individual.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.