Quotes About Individuality

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

Life is a bi..., but mine is a diva.

I love being a girl because we can act like guys without looking homo.

Life's such a movie, filmed independent, us against the city.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

No one can live without the decisions of their own it seems. So they look to someone else to tell them what to be, tell them what to wear, tell them what to say.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul." ~ Anna Quindlen

"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul."

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

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.

Some people have a way about them that seems to say: If I have only one life to live, let me live it as a jerk.

Voyage upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It's not the men in my life that counts--it's the life in my men.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.