Quotes About Individuality

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

After she went to school, they taught her the correct way to draw, and all the life went out of her art.

You can get CUT UP, DRESSED UP, MADE UP, DRUGGED UP, but at the end of the day you are the MAN or WOMAN God made you.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

If you're a writer, you're not a short order cook. Forget what people want. Write what you want to write, be true to yourself

Don't write for the market or for others. Write what you know, love and above all, write what you would love to read.

As a writer you have as many bosses as you have readers...though in the end, you must answer to yourself.

What makes a person's words and actions worth remembering are how they are different from everyone else's.

The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.

There's a perverse and bitter joy in feeling unique, but you pay dearly. Morrissey

There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991

Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, 'man-bags' or 'manscara'. Or about men becoming 'girlie' or 'gay'. It's about men becoming everything. To themselves. In much the way that women have been for some time. It's the end of the sexual division of bathroom and bedroom labour. It's the end of sexuality as we've known it.

The world does not need a 'gay Elvis', for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was quite queer enough

I stopped being a little Christ and instead began filling out the application that I had labeled Christian. It was not a definition based on the actual namesake, but rather on those who frequent the clubhouse. And in the midst of being an American Christian among all the other American Christians, I stopped truly searching the nuances of who Christ was and is in order to fully grasp what a little Christ might, indeed, act like.

not that the person needs to accommodate him- or herself to yoga, but rather the yoga practice must be tailored to fit each person

I learned through yoga asana that the body is a map to the soul and that my own body speaks a language that is designed for me to hear and learn from. Everyone's body and practice are different in the sense that the language that the body speaks is entirely different from one person to the next, but

Yes, we are all alone in this world. At least, when it comes right down to it. We are by ourselves, even when we're with others. All our thoughts are ours, alone.

In a field, I am the absence of field.

be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment," said Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment

They kill people, and I'm a people.

stitched cowboy boots. He grew his hair out. He had his bangs cut straight,