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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Think Different, Lead Different, Live Different.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Seek freedom within action.
Detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.
In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.
Do not become what you dispise.
The world is full of moments when people cross the line from engagement into disengagement, replacing creativity and passion with stagnation and resentment.
Transgress. In a word, be other than yourself in turning into your love-soaked opposite.
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
When one is different, the answers have to come from within.
All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one ...
We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.
Separation ... though effectual with people of certain humors, is apt to idealize the removed object with others; notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.
We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.
The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.
We should never think of separation except for repeated and enormous violations
The urge to be contrarian was strong. If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become.
Escape is easier than change.
If one is seeking reasons for disloyalty, it is useful to find something one can resent.
The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. 3) Uncertainty is essential, and you path to freedom.
Strive to be different.
The deviant and the conformist ... are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.
Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
Life demands for change.
You cannot escape your destiny,'
Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which gives some soil, perhaps, to my behaviors.
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
If you want things to be different in your life, you have to make different choices and take different actions.
In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.
We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.
Change requires courage
Think different, be different.
Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead,
and have fun with what happens.
My deha is different from yours. My hungers are different from yours. My assumptions are different from yours. My capabilities are different from yours. My experiences are diferent from yours. My expressions are different from yours.
The real things are apt to be deviant.
Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.
Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal.
More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To imagine that one can simply withdraw, and somehow achieve peace, or wisdom, or detachment, is a mistake. It is also, in most cases, inappropriate, selfish, and even cowardly.
I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend.
I have a message for the Divergent" I am Divergent. "This is not a negotiation" No, it is not. "It is a warning" I understand. "Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters ... " I will. " ... this will happen again" It will never happen again.
Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms
-not one that others, or the environment have
scripted for you.
When you're different you've got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.
difference is trampled under foot and conformity is elevated to a virtue
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed (17)
You must change in order to survive..
We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Divorced?'
'Separated.'
He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
You can't escape from what you are.
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
Different is good. But different is hard.
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.
You can't start the change unless dare to be different.
Go, send, or disobey.
and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not. in this, my husband and i were fundamentally different. in my opinion, a mistake required a getaway.
An absolutely different and distinctive character.
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life may cost you many pangs, and make every day a battle, yet it is a happy life after all.
We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.
I mistook non-conformity for freedom and in so doing found myself anything but free. For it is in conformity to one's true nature that one is most becoming, in both senses of the word: well-fitted and beautiful.
Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.
Sometimes you have to get away from people even the one's you love because,they are not trying to become someone different
Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.
Escape is the byword - forwards, backwards, or sideways - into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today
Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.
I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
Escape is a consumer goods like another
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Only you yourself can be your liberator!
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.
Be first, different & daring
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.
Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.
Be in harmony, yet be different.
To change one's life:
a. Start immediately
b. B. Do it flamboyantly
c. No exceptions
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.
You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.
You cannot be different from your thought!
I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
I am different. I am FUCKING DIFFERENT!