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there is a time to realize: envy, ignorance-- they are one; imitation is suicide; these convictions belong to ev'ry man. --Amy Stern |
when we look in their faces, we're disconcerted; their minds whole, their eyes unconquered --Amy Stern |
All do to it; infancy conforms to no one --Amy Stern |
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i- tation's suicide. Nourishing corn comes from tilling your own plot of ground. --Carol Carter '60 |
is a time in every man's education when he arrives at a conviction. --M. Gallo |
be constant is downright silly. Make some waves and become who you really are. --Bob Ketchum '58 |
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drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somehow yourself? --Alice Bryson |
would gather immortal palms must not be by goodness hindered, but must explore. --Alice Bryson |
For Nothing One face, One Character makes much Impression on him, another none. --Jillian Davis |
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your self, a heart vibrates to that iron string, surpassing chaos in the dark --Steph Herold |
life is for itself and not for spectacle, sweet, sound, not glittering, unsteady. --Erin B. |
are the voi- ces we hear in solitude that grow faint as we enter the world. -- Anna Mazzariello |
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are the exception rather than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. --Anna Mazzariello |
non confor mity, the world whips you with its displeasure. A man must know a sour face. --Anna Mazzariello |
seems to be a rule of wisdom--relying now not on memory alone --Anna Mazzariello |
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boy hold fast thinking free say what you do think your thought alone is what is true --Catherine Durante |
foot not more only flesh go beyond the body eternalize the inner self --Catherine Durante |
ces which we hear in solitude ... they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world ... society ... a joint stock --Jackie O'Mara |
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live flip flop release the past time will reveal lines the corpse of consistency falls (fades?) --Alison Reingold
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whoosh streak, tear deaf to world the arrow of me unencumbered by origin --Alison Reingold
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time for man every man when he arrives at the conviction, to feel envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. --Laine Edwards |
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all in the mind you know. --"Man is timid and apologetic ... saint or sage." --Marie Sager |
still quiet and sorry scared of what the world may say, so we "quote" and hide here --Marie Sager |
you. Do what you do best. That is your own gift. Others cannot do it like you. --Marie Sager |
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not reject the heart that beats inside your chest. Listen, care, and love one's own pulse. --Christopher |
are not to be used for following. Eyes are the horse we ride away. --Christopher |
not sleep in the tomb of a dead man. Realize the floor is there for dancing on. -- Christopher |
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not by views of others. Rather, do not judge at all. Love all that surrounds you. --Christopher |
Frees those who accept their place as a body of action in the universe. (Rorty on Spinoza) |
our own failed thoughts they come back to us with certain alienate majesty --Allie Eiselen |
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non conform- ity the world whips you with its displeasure. And there -- for woman must know how to estimate a sourface. --Jessica, after Emerson |
would be a man, must be a non conformist. --Jessica, after Emerson |
man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of the firmament of bards, sages for in every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts. --Margaret Miller |
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law can be sacred to me but that of my nature: good and bad. --Jorge J. Rodriguez | is a time in every man's education that he takes himself for better or worse. --Jorge J. Rodriguez | are the words we hear in solitude, but they grow silent and inaudible as we enter into the 'sivilized, grown-up world. --Lauren Sweeney |
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the virtue in most is conformity, then self-reliance is its foil. --Lauren Sweeney | law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. --Lauren Sweeney and bad are but names that are readily moved from this or that; I am right. -- Lauren Sweeney |
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i must do is all that concerns me, not what the other people will then think --Laura Otten | the great man is he who in the midst of crowds keeps independent solitude --Laura Otten | me for what i am and we shall be happy --Laura Otten |
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is sad that the world never advances just gains while losing what is past -- Laura Otten |
you, never imitate -- Laura Otten |
conforms to no one -- Laura Otten |
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is genius is to know whats true in your heart. Is the same truth for all mankind. |
man feels best when he has put his heart into his work and done the best he can. |
man arrives the convic- tion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide. Be true to yourself is all you can do. --Catherine Wimberley |
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I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule serves greatness. --Adina Halpern | Can Bring you Peace. Just you. None can bring you peace But the triumph of principles. --Adina Halpern | is a time when ev'ry man realizes imitation is suicide --Laci |
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God or from the Devil my own impulses are all that I trust and follow --Laci | guide for the well-lived life: whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. --Laci | my genius beckons me I forsake all else caught in the effect of my whim --Laci |
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con tent is the want of self reliance, it is the infirmity of will --Angel |
thing can bring you peace but your self. None can bring peace but triumph of principles. --Angel |
you are no- ble I will love you, but if you are not I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. --Angel |
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the other thinks of me is not relevant to my consciousness and my life. --Alum, '58. GSSW, '86 | me. Focus. Usages that have become dead scatter my force, lose my time and blur the impression of my unique character. --Alum, '58. GSSW, '86 | not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life's experiment. --Anne Dalke |
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