Quotes About Individuality

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you'd been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

To preempt rejection she dresses to exaggerate her difference when the true enemy is not the world's disdain but its indifference. He is surely the next item in a dreary procession and cannot be seen for all those previous disappointments.

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you've been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.

I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

I guess I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. The key is in the door and it can always be opened.

And what is it we give our children anyway, except the ability to not become us?

One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.

You have to look on the world with a shine like no one else has.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

But it was only genius if you thought of it first. A teacher told him that. Genius is lonely.

The great thing about real life is that it belongs to you. You can make it up as you go along!

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)

As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type; it's the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better. (341)

Judge less–or at least later. • Give new ideas and images a chance. • Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own. • Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology. • Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260)

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love. When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude.

Individuality can only be valuable when it is not individuality for its own sake but individuality for the human community.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.