Quotes About Individuality

Embrace who you are. You have been given every tool, every talent, and every trait you need to realize your destiny. You can't be everything to everyone. All you can be is YOU. And that is enough. Take criticism from the crowd as a compliment. If you were bored, or plain, or average, the critics would be silent.

Don't let other people's opinions of you, what you say and what you do influence who you are.

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be

Never forget who you are. Only you can satisfy your needs and lead your life. Never lose sight of your humanity with all it's frailties. Be strong and never be led, instead be the leader of your own personal journey.

Your talent makes you who your are.You should be proud of it.

Don't ever let a soul in the world tell you, you can't be exactly who you are.

When you spend too much time concentrating on everyone else's perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you eventually forget who you really are. So don't fear the judgments of others; you know in your heart who you are and whats true to you.

Para tornar a realidade suportável, todos temos de cultivar em nós certas pequenas loucuras.

They] can't….understand you: you're such an exceptional person. That's what I liked about you from the start; I felt that you weren't like everybody else.

Je fis comme eux avec cet air naturel d'un libre-penseur dans une église, lequel ne connaît pas la messe, mais se lève quand tout le monde se lève et se met à genoux un peu après que tout le monde s'est mis à genoux.

The question isn't, as for Hamlet, to be or not to be, but to be one of them or not to be one of them. You're one, my uncle Charlus is one. What d'you expect? I've never liked all that, it's not my fault.

But then, even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

Apenas discerni que repetir o que toda a gente pensava não era em política um sinal de inferioridade, mas de superioridade.

social, and even individual differences are merged when seen from a distance in the uniformity of an epoch.

But friendship does not express itself in the same way in different people.

began to wonder whether originality really shows that great writers are gods, each of them reigning over a kingdom which is his alone, whether misleading appearances might not play a role in this, and whether the differences between their books might not be the result of hard work, rather than the expression of a radical difference in essence between distinct personalities.

Those who produce works of genius are not those who spend their days in the most refined company, whose conversation is the most brilliant, or whose culture is the broadest; they are those who have the ability to stop living for themselves and make a mirror of their personality, so that their lives, however nondescript they may be socially, or even in a way intellectually, are reflected in it. For genius lies in reflective power, and not in the intrinsic quality of the scene reflected.

There are far fewer ideas than men, therefore all men with similar ideas are alike. As

Ni siquiera desde el punto de vista de las cosas más insignificantes de la vida somos los hombres un todo materialmente constituido, idéntico para todos, y del que cualquiera puede enterarse como de un pliego de condiciones o de un testamento. Nuestra personalidad social es una creación del pensamiento de los demás.

When I talked with any one of my friends I was conscious that the original, the unique portrait of her individuality had been skilfully traced, tyranically imposed on my mind as much by the inflexions of her voice as by those of her face, and that these were two separate spectacles which rendered, each in its own plane, the same single reality.

the fact remains that there is a certain objective reality in each of these people, and consequently a difference among them.

But the mistake she made was only an extreme and desiccated instance of the countless mistakes, more trivial, more pointed, unintentional, or deliberate, that accompany our names on the particular index card the world allots us.

perhaps indeed there exists but a single intelligence of which everyone is a co-tenant, an intelligence towards which each of us from out of his own separate body turns his eyes, as int a theatre where, if everyone has his own separate seat, there is on the other hand but a single stage.