Quotes About Individuality

who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

You want to know a secret?" I asked. "Sure," she said halfheartedly. "I love to sniff the insides of books," I said in a whisper. "Because each book has its own special perfume.

You hear yourself walking on the snow. You hear the absence of the birds. A stillness so complete, you hear the whispering inside of you. Alone morning after morning, and even more at night. They say we are born alone, to live and die alone. But they are wrong. We get to be alone by time, by luck, or by misadventure. — Jack Gilbert, from "Betrothed," Collected Poems (Knopf, 2012)

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.

We're a beat generation.

The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to live out

No matter what the world around you wants, there is only one person you can be true to, and that is yourself.

There is a vitality, a life force that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time." No one has lived your life before. It is an adventure worth taking.

You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.

There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep.

I'm a nut, I know I'm a nut, I enjoy being a nut so I'll stay a nut.

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

This line of thinking, ascribing agency and individuality to women, an individuality which may lead to different outcomes than men's, violates the foundational myth of the Blue Church: all people everywhere are exactly the same, including their preferences and life choices.

I don't wanna be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.