Quotes About Individuality

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Either you're born crazy or you're born boring.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

En estas ocasiones, creo sinceramente que lo mejor es tragarse una cápsula de dinamita y encender, con toda tranquilidad, un cigarrillo.

Yo no tengo una personalidad; yo soy un cocktail, un conglomerado, una manifestación de personalidades.

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada día, cuando termina el sueño, allí, donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas...

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

Vivete la vostra vita, quella che meglio vi corrisponde senza diventare preda dei luoghi comuni legati al successo. Siate voi stessi, profondamente, e sarete felici. E' questo il fine ultimo della vita. Otterrete una soddisfazione che nessuno potrà rubarvi.

Invece, nel mondo della fotografia, manca ancora il vostro sguardo, il vostro scoop. Siate dunque voi stessi, anima e corpo. Specializzatevi su un tema senza preoccuparvi di sapere se funzionerà o meno.

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

The cruel social arbiters of Indian society were denying individual merit. In their eyes, Ambedkar was simply a Mahar, and they could not care less if his scholarship was as vast as the sky.

because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

But often we have inherited someone else's view of who we are or who we should be. And sometimes, although we may ourselves hold these values, their dominance in our lives in a particular form does not allow us to live out other aspects of what we love and who we are. The deepest desires of the soul are rarely concerned with the practical details of mortgage payments, pension plans, prior commitments, past honours, or others' opinions.