Quotes About Individuality

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see.

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace..

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.

Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real I to reveal itself.

Don't let other's say That road is better or That route is easier. The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: "I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

Veronica hated everything, but mainly she hated the way she had lived her life, never bothering to discover the hundreds of other Veronicas who lived inside her and who were interesting, crazy, curious, brave, bold.

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone, if you do, you will be respected by no one.

You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it...You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness

What's so special about me? There isn't anything special about you, at least, nothing I can put my finger on. And yet and here's the mystery of life - I can't think of anything else.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.