Quotes About Individuality

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer, I'm a song stylist.

I don't think you need religion.

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.

You just say the opposite to what everyone else thinks. Is that why people think you're so clever?

If I was free, if I was just me, then what was I?

If I was free, if I was just me, then what was I? What could I do; what could I become

Where were all the normal cutesy playful nickknacks most girls her age had? There were no Mickey Mouse or Miffy Rabbit stuffed animals, nor posters of singers like Kazuya Kamenashi, or movie stars like Brad Pitt

I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea, one feeling in common with the people who surround me, as the very first word I should speak truthfully would cause a general hue and cry, I have preferred to keep silent, or, if I do speak, to utter only stupid commonplaces which everyone has agreed to believe in.

I said before, that I have learnt much by guiding others. In the first place I see that all souls have more or less the same battles to fight, and on the other hand, that one soul differs widely from another, so each must be dealt with differently.

I saw that every flower He has created has a beauty of its own, that the splendor of the rose and the lily's whiteness do not deprive the violet of its scent nor make less ravishing the daisy's charm. I saw that if every little flower wished to be a rose, Nature would lose her spring adornments, and the fields would be no longer enameled with their varied flowers.

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. The universe is made of one kind of entity: each one is alive, each determines the course of his own existence.

The first time I saw that nobody," said Ringo proudly, "I knew he was a somebody!

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

People don't like you because they don't see in you the things they like or there is something in you they don't have

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

A genius is the one most like himself.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Normality is death.

The practical orders of life, while purporting to benefit man, serve in a profit economy to stunt human qualities, and the further they spread the more they sever everything tender.