Quotes About Individuality

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Do your thing & I shall know you.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

God enters by a private door into each individual.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

As to what are called the masses, and common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove.

42. The colour of milk is one, the colours of the cows many, So is the nature of knowledge, observe the wise ones. Beings of various marks and attributes, Are like the cows, their realisation is the same; This is an example we should know.

As long as you're taking advice from others, you are not integrated nor total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated, driven by no-mind state.

Every Individual has a madness in himself which is unique, incomparable, which drives him into this world. And if two people like each other's madness its called LOVE and if not, its called HATE. Never MIND!"

Flaws are intrinsic part of your Nature. Accept it for it can't be improved, just rejoice in it! ~ Ramana Pemmaraju