Quotes About Individuality

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

Sanity is not statistical.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

I'm just me - the way I am.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

Just remember, when you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird on me.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.