Quotes About Individuality

Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

You didn't come into this life to be anyone else. You are here to stand out. To express yourself as only you can.

In the depths of my being I have never been one of them. I have just written what I experienced.

If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?

Children do not yearn for equal shares of love: They need to be loved uniquely, not uniformly. The emphasis is on quality, not equality. We

When the child is allowed to experience the self as an individual with self-originating needs and goals, that child begins to assume responsibility for his or her own life and its demands. Allowance:

Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat — & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you — so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr — accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.

I wish I had the strength to make an outcast of myself.

I'm not like that, he says. I'm not a … Fairy? –Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of you will die.

The consequences of this definition are far-reaching, for if we accept this hypothesis, there will be no reason to feel bad or guilty about the way we are. Each self will be fully honored;

Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.

It's a useful habit never to believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

No, it's not gun-holder, it's Gunhilda.

Gyvenim? pradedi auksin?mis svajon?mis apie bekraš?ius miškus, o pabaigoje džiaugiesi vienui vienu medžiu. Toks ir yra kiekvienos gyvos b?tyb?s tikslas - iškirsti svajones.

Don't you want to tell the story yourself?' I asked my father one snowy, bright autumn Sunday. 'Ach. Who wants to hear a leaf tell the story of the wind?

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would.

You're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece.

I don't say it often, but I'm proud of the woman that I turned out to be

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would. I

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

All my own making," Estelle said. "Oh, of course, sister held the nails and bossed, but I did it. I like it, too. It's more fun than working red poppies on tidies—that's about all they'll let you do back East." "It doesn't matter much what you do out here," said Rivers, meaningly. "Oh yes, it does. Some things are wrong anywhere; but there are other things which people think are wrong that are only unusual," she answered, and he knew she knew what he meant.