Quotes About Individuality

I did not know how to be me, my strange and unusual self, without her. I had tried it, of course. I had existed whole years without her, but that was all it had been. An existence. A book with no words.

We are infinitely better than the most perfect-looking bionic sex robots. We are humans. Let's not be ashamed to look like them.

Montaigne said that the point of life is to give yourself to yourself. I am trying.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.

I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theatre of your mind for the main role.

It's okay to like things for literally no other reason than because you like them and not because they are cool or clever or popular.

Happiness occurs when you for get who you're expected to be. And what you're expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.

I had never been one of those males who were scared of tears. I'd been a Cure fan, for God's sake.

You are right to think of these lives like a piano where you're playing tunes that aren't really you. You are forgetting who you are. In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one. You are forgetting your root life. You are forgetting what worked for you and what didn't. You are forgetting your regrets.

I'm French. I mean, that's my subject. Was also my nationality, too, though who lets nationality define them? Apart from idiots.

M-am imbarbatat gandindu-ma la cateva numere prime aleatorii. Fiecare dintre ele este precum iubirea, de neimpartit, decat cu unu si cu sine insusi.

There is no right or wrong way to have depression, or to have a panic attack, or to feel suicidal.

Much of gossip is envy in disguise, Much of self-doubt is conformity in disguise.

We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a planet. We are all part of that. All freaks. All wonderful.

Ignore idiots with narrow definitions od beauty. They are blind to life's imperfect wonder.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called "The World." No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds.

Walt Whitman was right about at least one thing. You will contradict yourself. You are large. You contain multitudes.

No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren't sharp enough to hurt.

Don't do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It's always best to live it as yourself.

so we need quite quickly to learn how to be happy with not having society's unrealistic version of the 'best' body, and a bit happier with having our body

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it.

If people pick on you, they see something inside you that they are scared of. Something special, which they might not have, which shines out of you like a jewel.

Ratings are no sign of worth. Never judge yourself on them. To be liked by everyone you would have to be the blandest person ever. William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer of all time. He has a mediocre 3.7 average on Goodreads.