Quotes About Individuality

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

If you join two lives, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

That far land we dream about,Where every man is his own architect.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

To live originally is to live authentically, to not be defined by culture or environment, to be truly oneself. We do not want to ignore culture. We live in it; but we need not be defined by it. Living originally, we are in the world but we are not of the world.

But maybe you shouldn't wonder so much about his secret, he says. What's really important is finding your secret - something that becomes like a seed inside you - that will grow as you grow up.

The sweetest sound to anyone's ears is the sounds of his own name.

and all the strange rats we saw looked, to us, surprisingly weak and puny. So we were set apart from even our own kind.

J'ai lu les postmodernistes avec un certain intérêt avec même admiration. Mais quand je les lis, j'ai toujours cet horrible sentiment lancinant que quelque chose d'absolument essentiel est oublié. Plus on dit qu'une personne est un produit social, ou un confluent de forces ou fragmentée, ou marginalisée et plus on ouvre tout un nouveau monde d'excuses.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

You don't have to be nice all the time. Get angry once in a while. You're entitled.

We live at a certain level of abstraction; we interact as bodies, not cell colonies.

Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly.

Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom.

actively rebel against those forces that have pushed you away from your true path.

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity

The character you seem to have been born with is not necessarily who you are; beyond the characteristics you have inherited, your parents, your friends, and your peers have helped to shape your personality

Conforming to social norms, you will listen more to others than to your own voice.

When you are faced with deficiencies instead of strengths and inclinations, this is the strategy you must assume: ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others. Instead, like Temple Grandin, direct yourself toward the small things you are good at.

ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others.

man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Those who are truly original and different do not need to make a great show of it.

Alienar-se de suas inclinações só pode resultar em dor e decepção no longo prazo, e à sensação de que desperdiçou algo único. Essa dor se manifestará sob a forma de amargura e inveja, embora você não reconheça a verdadeira fonte de sua depressão.

We must learn to develop ourselves. At the same time, it is a world teeming with critical problems and opportunities, best solved and seized by entrepreneurs—individuals or small groups who think independently, adapt quickly, and possess unique perspectives. Your individualized, creative skills will be at a premium.