Quotes About Individuality

I'm not a huge fan of other people's logic.

Everyone in the world is a Charlie. The trick is to figure out which Charlie you're going to be. Charlie Manson. Charlie Starkweather. Or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." "Charlie Chaplin." "Charlie Parker." "Charly… from Flowers for Algernon." "Charlie Brown.

He hands me a cup full of the black stuff. I hold it up and say, "To freaks everywhere." Vidocq holds up his mug. "May you fly, walk, swim, or crawl for all eternity under the noses of our betters.

Then don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition.

Home late. Be naked.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

The storied self knows that self is not enough.

The most successful people change the world not through sweat and tears but through ideas and passion. It is not a matter of hard work or time on the job; it is having a different view, an original idea, something that expresses their individuality and creativity. Success comes from thinking, then acting on those thoughts.

I give people the latitude to express their imagination.

Parents cannot protect and guide without controlling and restricting. Children cannot become individuals without resisting and attacking. The process of child rearing is, therefore, inherently conflictual.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.

You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Sometimes I venture to call my soul my own

I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

Sometimes it takes travelling the world to realize that it isn't ok to be different, it's freaking awesome!

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice.

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice. But we will know what you have done. And in your heart, so will you. And that is more than heroic. It is noble.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.