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Quotes About Individuality

You love the life you've lived because it is yours.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
A familiar story, Marya instructs herself—a woman yearning to be completed in a man, by way of a man. As if she hadn't a soul of her own.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You love the life you've lived, there is no other. You love the life you've lived, you're an American girl. You believe you have chosen it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
No I don't, no I reject that I reject you, I am not your sister, I am not your twin, I am not you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Being lonely was a female sickness for which the cure was the tattoo freak & the tattoo freak was also the sickness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If you want a life. Different from your parents.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I told you Clara, I don't stay in one place long. And nobody comes with me. I don't marry none of them either. Erase me from your head because you're just not the one kid. Not just that you're young, which you are, but what I want is a voice. A way a woman talks to me, says things to me I don't know and am astonished to hear and I'll know her as soon as I hear her.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?' 'Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it.
~ Joyce Cary
Ten years from now, her mother might not even recognize her. Already she was different, but the day would come when she'd be this person her mother had never seen. There would be other people - someone like Carolyn or Alan, or even Violet - who had known her longer than her mother ever did.
~ Joyce Maynard
There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!
~ Joyce Meyer
Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.
~ Joyce Meyer
It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.
~ Joyce Meyer
When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.
~ Joyce Meyer
You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.
~ Joyce Meyer
Be Yourself "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." —RALPH WALDO EMERSON But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor. —Galatians 6:4 For
~ Joyce Meyer
When they measure themselves with themselves and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding and behave unwisely. 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12
~ Joyce Meyer
Prayer of Thanks Father, help me to love and appreciate the person You created me to be. I thank You that I don't have to compare myself to others in order to be accepted. You created me with a unique and wonderful purpose. I'm thankful that to You, I am special and beyond compare.
~ Joyce Meyer
We are all different. Like the sun, the moon, and the stars, God has created us to be different from one another, and He has done it on purpose. Each of us meets a need, and we are all part of God's overall plan.
~ Joyce Meyer
Your presence is a present to the world. You are unique and one of a kind. Do not ever forget, for even a day… how very special you are!
~ Joyce Meyer
No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.
~ Joyce Meyer
We're all different. You can't be somebody else, so you might as well get good at being who you are.
~ Joyce Meyer
don't be overly concerned about what other people think of you and your decisions. Most of them are not thinking about you as much as you might imagine that they are anyway.
~ Joyce Meyer