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Quotes About Individuality

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
~ Carl Jung
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
~ Christian D. Larson
I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.
~ Simon McBurney
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
~ Warren G. Bennis
The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
~ Eric Hoffer
I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.
~ Drake
Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.
~ Paulo Coelho
Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.
~ Eli Russell Linnetz
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
~ Eric Hoffer
I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.
~ Jami Floyd
Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.
~ Joe Swanberg
Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.
~ Tahereh Mafi
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
~ Martin Heidegger
I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.
~ Sigmund Freud
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
~ Viola Davis
...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
~ e. e. cummings
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
~ Henry Miller
Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.
~ Mariane Pearl
Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race.
~ Joel Osteen
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
~ Gilbert Ryle