Quotes About Individuality

Nunca le permitas a nadie que te haga pensar de ti mismo como que eres alguien ordinario. Si alguien te hace sentir menos de lo que eres, sólo tienes que ver en el espejo y decir, "Tú eres alguien completamente original". Tú eres una persona única, irremplazable, original.

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

We should always keep our behavior or performance separate from our sense of self-worth.

People who changed the world have declared independence from other people's expectations.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).

To maximize your life you must declare independence from the opinions of others.

So that's why he came to Memphis—"to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black. I come to state that I'm a man, free to think for myself and do as I please.… I will not be consigned the unquestioned opinions of others.

I always thought education was learning to think for yourself

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.

There were no other groups in the ancient world going around claiming to be the human race.

Friend, no one ever accomplishes your dreams for you, regardless of tears, fits, or any other means of manipulation. They can give you ideas and direction, but in the end, you have to do it alone. You must figure out your own destination and the best route to get there because no one else knows the way.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Everyone wears the uniform of how he sees himself or how he disguises himself.

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

She crushed it, telling herself she was going to add Big in front of her Idiot tattoo.

You're not useless. You're a hunky bite of sex and I'm not sure if Dmitri swings both ways.

God, I love your skin." "My skin?" She glanced uncomprehendingly at her own arm when he rose from nibbling at her. "It's brown." "It's melted chocolate and coffee with cream, exotic as the fucking desert, and so damn erotic. I have wet dreams about you naked on my sheets, your skin smooth and hot from the sun's rays." She swallowed, chest heaving. "You make me sound edible." He purred. "You are.

Live your life, Sahara. Live it as big and with as much color as you can stand to bear. Don't let anyone or anything - the family, Silence, the wight of your ability, even my need to keep you close - confine you again.

Sometimes, the scars are what make us who we are.

The need that ravaged him was hotly specific, targeted to only one woman.

Zaira didn't know why men and women would need different cleansing supplies, but she used the female set because she liked the pale blue shade of it.

If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.

A flaw does not make a man worthless," Raphael had once said to Dmitri. "Else I would've been discarded long ago.