Quotes About Individuality

Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own raise you in time of peace and time of war. Hear all, but attend only that which concerns you.

And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.

Cooper had a theory about personality. Most people considered personality to be a singular identity. Malleable, sure, but essentially cohesive. But he tended to see people as more of a chorus. Every stage in life added a voice to that chorus. The different iterations of himself—lonely military brat, cocky teenager, faithful soldier, young husband, dedicated father, relentless hunter—they all existed within him.

everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

He hadn't really known them, and like most people, he was just solipsistic enough to not truly believe they existed when he wasn't there. We're all background characters in someone else's movie. Maybe

Reminded you that everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

I might have been normal but if I was I cannot remember that time.

Remember this: every man has to find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. I believe that. You just have to find out what it is you're looking for.

What you are saying and the way you are saying it are very closely linked. I discovered that I always had to let the book I was writing find its own style. Only in that way can you be sure that you are doing the right thing by your subject matter. It's a strange feeling -- as if the book has a life of its own.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

It is, perhaps, part of the human condition that children, as they grow to adulthood, must disentangle themselves from who their parents dreamt they might be, in order to figure out who they really are or hope to be. For

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

I refuse to dawn the velvet tether of meaningless expectations and follow you blindly.

though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own. And thus, believing, or, at least, hoping, that no Creature can, or will, Envy me for this World of mine, I remain, Noble Ladies, Your Humble Servant, M. Newcastle.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.