Quotes About Individuality

I also suddenly realized that, as unlikely as it seemed, Adrian and I had a lot in common. Both of us were constantly boxed in by others' expectations. It didn't matter that people expected everything of me and nothing of him. We were still the same, both of us constantly trying to break out of the lines that others had defined for us and be our own person. Adrian Ivashkov—flippant, vampire party boy—was more like me than anyone else I knew.

I don't believe in soul mates, not exactly. I think it's ridiculous to think there's only one person out there for us. What if your "soul mate" lives in Zimbabwe? What if he dies young? I also think "two souls becoming one" is ridiculous. You need to hold onto yourself. But I do believe in souls being in sync, souls that mirror each other.

Oh, great. I'm a doll.

I'd never really planned on stealing someone else's life.

I don't believe in soul mates, not exactly. I think it's ridiculous to think that there's only one person out there for us. What if your 'soul mate' lives in Zimbabwe? What if he dies young? I also think 'two souls becoming one' is ridiculous. You need to hold onto yourself.

None of us are meant to be or do anything. We decide what we're going to be.

I like you being the sinner you are.

No puedo creer que no quieras nada. Va a ser un cumpleaños aburrido. "Libertad", pensé yo. Ése era el único regalo que anhelaba: libertad para tomar mis propias decisiones, libertad para amar a quien yo quisiese. No importa -dije en cambio. ¿Qué es lo que...? -se detuvo. Lo comprendió. Siempre lo hacía.

I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices." "And you're with Adrian," said Dimitri. "But I was meant for you.

I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices.

Pero el nombre y el apellido no hacen a una persona ni determinan qué va a ser, como bien has demostrado.

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Every relationship is different. Everybody loves differently.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you. Anytime you reject any part of yourself, you are rejecting God's wisdom and sovereignty in creating you.

Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.

C. S. Lewis observed, "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

if you live for the approval of others, you will die by their rejection.

Homosexuality is not a political choice; it is dictated by the imperatives of desire.

One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

Don't try to sound cool. Guys do that all the time, and I'm telling you it's a complete turnoff, okay? Just be you. You're cute; live with it. But don't try to sound like James Bond or something, because you're not. - Summer Sumner

Call me Roy. Everyone else does." He liked her looks—there was no missing that glint in his eyes, and it disgusted her.

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

O Lord, give each person his own personal death. / A thing that moves out of the same life he lived, / In which he had love, and intelligence, and trouble.

Je est un autre.