Quotes About Individuality

The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

Be weird...only losers are normal.

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look--without needing anybody's approval!

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

Just be yourself -- it's the only way it can work.

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

It's all me. I'm not just one flavor. You're not, either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world.

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.

You're not going to like everyone, and not everyone is going to like you. It's a statistical impossibility. So don't fret over it, and don't feel guilty or insecure about it.

There is no right or wrong answer for everyone, but there is a right and wrong answer for you. Only you know what would make you truly happy, and you can make the decision easier for yourself by "following your heart.

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.

It doesn't matter what others think of you if you are fulfilling your life's purpose. If you worry about what other people think or say, you give away your power, and that is a surefire way to live an unfulfilled life. You must not try to be like others. Be original. Speak differently, act differently, and work differently. A spiritless person lacks courage and energy. Remember the child you once were?

And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man. It is wonderful to me that the race has progressed so broadly as it has, since most of its thought and all of its activity must run through the narrow neck of this one funnel.

Do you know, I don't object to anyone's having prejudices so long as those prejudices don't interfere with my personal liberty.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

isn't wearing the right clothes, it's wearing clothes right.

Kazuo Ishiguro, the New Nobel Laureate, Has Supremely Done His Own Kind of Thing

What do you do when you already know what your problem is? What if it's not really a problem? It's only a problem if I want a relationship. If I want to fit into a conventional mode of happiness. It's only a problem if I care. And I can't tell if I care.

I have a hard enough time being me, not pulling myself apart every single day. And if it wasn't just my personality and my life choices, but then also my art too? I would die." I

But I get it; it's a way to mark time. When your life's too busy, it forces you to check in with yourself. Or when it feels all the same all the time, maybe it can make you feel special.

The thing that made you special is gone.

Old college friends post links to reviews of it on my Facebook wall and say things like, "Sounds like something you'd like," or "This reminded me of you." I think, Am I supposed to like this? I don't, in fact, like it. I dislike it. Where is my dislike button? Where do I click to scream?

Then she calls me and she's crying and we talk for a while about her marriage and while I am sad that my friend is sad, it makes me happier than ever that I've never been married and never will be, because marriage sounds like a goddamn job, and why would I want another one of those?

You allow yourself that pleasure of liking yourself. What if this is enough?