Quotes About Individuality

You don't have to be just like everybody else … there is another way.

Give up having to have a reason for everything you do. When someone asks you why, remember that you don't have to come up with a reasonable answer that will satisfy them. You can do what you decide just because you want to.

Nothing is more important than anything else. The child collecting seashells is not doing something more right or wrong than the President of General Motors making a major corporate decision. They are different. Nothing more!

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

It's easy to use the label as justification for remaining the same. Sören Kierkegaard wrote, "Once you label me, you negate me." When the individual must live up to the label

Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't … you aren't.

It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not." — ANDRÉ GIDE

There is just one life for each of us: our own. — Euripides

How can you fail at being yourself

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

self-actualized person has a strong desire for privacy; vehemently resists enculturation, but always has a freshness of appreciation; and has a genuine desire to help the human race. Yet "when it comes down to it, in certain basic ways he is like an alien in a strange land. Very few really understand him, however much they may like him.

You must learn to cultivate your own garden and keep your nose out of everybody else's. If they want to grow rutabagas in it, if they want to use a different kind of fertilizer than you do, if they want to have weeds in it, that's really none of your business. The important thing is that yours is the way you want it to be.

Your primary relationship needs to be with yourself, not your family, business, country, culture, or ethnicity.

You are always experiencing things in your own unique and special way.

The supreme Taoist leader always leaves people to choose and pursue their own way of life, their own conception of the good.

Deixe de procurar uma resposta numa existência de regras e tradições. Entoe seu próprio cântico de felicidade da maneira que você escolher, sem pensar em como se esperaria que ele fosse.

work at living one day in complete harmony with your own nature, ignoring pressures to be otherwise.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist, there is no 'The way' to do anything.

Apply your own uniqueness to everything you undertake. Whatever you feel compelled to do—be it write music, design software, do floral arrangements, clean teeth, or drive a taxi—do it with your unique flair.

You can never predict how someone you love will react to another human being, but if they choose to be affectionate or loving you can only experience the immobility of jealousy if you see their decisions as having anything to do with you. That is your choice. If a partner loves another, he isn't being "unfair," he is simply being. If you label it unfair, you'll probably

lose interest in seeking approval.

what others think of you is really none of your business!

Si sigues al rebaño acabarás pisando excrementos».

Remind yourself that the fear of failure is very often the fear of someone else's disapproval or ridicule. If you let them have their own opinions, which have nothing to do with you, you can begin to evaluate your behavior in your own, rather than their terms. You'll come to see your abilities not as better or worse, but as simply different from others.