Quotes About Individuality

How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else

Man differs more from man than man from beast

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

Coach Wooden didn't treat everybody the same; he treated people the way they deserved to be treated.

I thought treating everyone the same was being fair and impartial. Gradually I began to suspect that it was neither fair nor impartial. In fact, it was just the opposite. That's when I began announcing that team members wouldn't be treated the same or alike; rather, each one would receive the treatment they earned and deserved.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece.

don't worry much about trying to be better than someone else.

Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement.

Do not become too concerned about what others may think of you. Be very concerned about what you think of yourself.

Be true to yourself. You know what's right. Don't let someone else decide for you.

Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you.

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

They stick you with those names, those labels -- 'rebel' or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession…. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Self-Reliance

Be a light unto yourself.

that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already.