Quotes About Individuality

Of course! That was it! I didn't need a tattoo. What I needed was something a lot less expensive and considerably less painful. What I needed was a Playboy. Guys who are gay do not keep Playboy magazines in their bedrooms.

i have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and i delete it without looking at the profile because that doesn't seem natural. 'cause friendship should not be as easy as that. it's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. or books. omg... U like the outsiders 2... it's like we're the same person! no we're not. it's like we have the same english teacher. there's a difference.

To be a free man, one must have a universe of one's own

But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell "Another sensibility like mine exists.

And it relieves me to learn that you are not trying to make friends," the captain said, locking her hammerhead eyes on Ms. Price, "because no one likes you.

To perceive others as fully human means to be saddened by the death of every single person, regardless of the population, group, or part of the world from which he comes, and regardless of our own personal acquaintance with him. If we accord him identity, then we must individualize his death [and] … if we accord him community, then we must experience his death as a personal loss.

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

Falling in love is thus the most conformist method of being an individual. Conversely, falling in love is the most original and spontaneous way to conform, perhaps the only way of conforming to social demands that will never make you look like a conformist. It is the one way that you can behave like everyone else and still claim, at the same time, that you did it your way.

That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

God leads every soul by a separate path.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

There's no, 'Oh my God, somebody else is gonna come back and take my spot.' I wanna have a spot that's my spot, that nobody can take away, because nobody else is me.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl.

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.