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Quotes About Individuality

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
~ Ludovico Ariosto
When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.
~ Jane Roberts
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
~ Robert Holden
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
~ Henry Adams
I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.
~ Elsa Peretti
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
~ Aaron Siskind
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
~ John Stuart Mill
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
~ Philip Pullman
When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.
~ Andrew Schneider
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
~ Pablo Picasso
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
~ Robert Redford
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~ Malcolm Boyd
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
~ Tertullian
Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
~ Arthur Guiterman
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
~ Lady Hester Stanhope
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
~ Quintilian
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
~ Lord Byron
If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
~ T. E. Brown