Quotes About Individuality

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Always stay in your own movie.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

Follow your own weird.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.