Quotes About Individuality

Stand out: someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

Be kind to our language: avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

Every man has a name given by the stars given by his neighbors. —ZELDA MISHKOVSKY, 1974

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Talking about Rosalind in As You Like It] She disguises herself as a boy, drops all the covering inhibitions of "femininity", and really searches for her true self (...) Her disguise gives her the ability to find out about herself, what she really thinks and feels (...). And she can do all this freely, without having anyone in power tell her how women should or should not behave.(...)

I am what I am, and what I am is what I am. I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am. If I have a will to be, I will to be no more than what I was. If I was what I am willed to be, yet they ever will be wondering what I am or what I ever was. I want to change the Wall, and make my will.

I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever. -T?shir? Hitsugaya (Bleach)

Quello che non sopporto è che tutti non siano come me

preferisco essere un vecchio porco che un vecchio sposato!

Del corpo ne abbiamo fatto un'ossessione, ma il corpo non siamo noi.

Die) Überzeugung, dass es nur einen wahren grossen Meister gibt: jenen, den jeder Mensch in sich trägt. Wenn des Nachts die Stille so vollkommen ist, dass sie zu dröhnen scheint, steht er auf, entzündet eine Kerze und setzt sich ein paar Stunden lang davor. Wozu? "Um zu versuchen, ich selbst zu sein", hat er mir einmal geantwortet. "Um die Melodie zu hören.

There's no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.

your character was the only thing you ever wholly and truly possessed.

This is all we are at our best, he thought, tiny instances accumulating up into a greater whole.

T]he majority possesses an empire so absolute and so irresistible that one must in a way renounce one's rights as a citizen and so to speak one's quality as a man when one wants to deviate from the path it has traced.

The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring kind of conformity.

I know i barely talk and pretty much act like I'm not here, but I'm totally here and have a million things to say, and me being me is exactly as insane as you being you.

We do not spontaneously produce our identity from our own free act. Identity has an external origin.

Identity is how I want others to see me and thus always involves a capitulation to one form of social authority or another. Despite the feeling that we really are this identity, it is not the product of our freedom. It is a capitulation to the dictates of the social order. We do not make ourselves who we are, but social and natural determinations structure our identity.

It was the people who tried to seem normal all the time who were really messed up

Don't be afraid to try. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't be afraid to color your hair. Try to understand where people are coming from. Don't forget that most people are really good at heart. And if you hate your name, change it.