Quotes About Individuality

In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you .

Generations of girls had to suffer excruciating pain because somebody unknown had decreed that big feet were unacceptable in upper-class society. It was high time that somebody tried to stop this senseless practice. I was proud that Xueyan and I were among the first to rebel.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

In the end you have only you.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

You are all you have. Therefore, make yourself the most beautiful, tender, wonderful, fantastic person in the world. And then you will always survive.

You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

why was I born with a different face, Why was I not born like the rest of my race? When I look each one starts! when I speak I offend Then I'm silent and passive and lose every friend.

Now my wings are black, I thought, and yet I am not like my friends. We are all different. Each for his own memories, and his own invisible golden dreams.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

tous les bonheurs se ressemblent, mais chaque infortune a sa physionomie particulière.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.