Quotes About Individuality

And like flowers in the fields, that make wonderful views, when we stand side-by-side in our wonderful hues.. We all make a beauty so wonderfully true. We are special and different, and just the same, too! So whenever you look at your beautiful skin, from your wiggling toes to your giggling grin... Think how lucky you are that the skin you live in, so beautifully holds the "You" who's within.

Tuned pianos are pretty much alike, but no pianos are out of tune the same.

In fallenness one drifts along with the fads and trends of the crowd, caught up in the mindless busy-ness, and tranquillized by the secure feeling that everyone else is doing the same thing; things in general seem to have been worked out by us. Heidegger says that, in its fallenness, Dasein 'becomes blind to all its possibilities, and tranquillizes itself with that which is merely "actual"'. In its simplest form, fallenness is the non-awareness of what it means to be.

I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences people have been having for thousands of years. And speak of it.

That was almost his appeal: he was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul.

You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think.

I quote others only in order to better express myself.

There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

I quote others only to better express myself.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray… I am myself the matter of my book.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.