Quotes About Individuality

You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]

Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. If you refuse to be alone you are rejecting Christ's call to you, and you can have no part in the community of those who are called.

And take up their cross." That cross is already there, ready, from the very beginning; we need only take it up. But to keep us from believing that we must simply choose any arbitrary cross, or simply pick out our suffering as we will, Jesus emphasizes that each of us has his or her own cross, ready, appointed, and appropriately measured by God.1

God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others.

The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves—in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought—until we are reborn in Christ.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

Ignore the critics… Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different!

I like the idea of being whoever I want to be.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

Don't save your good lingerie for dates, wear it for you.

I'm more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had her hair bleached, fake eyelashes, and that's when she became extraordinary. It's that idea of what you're not born with, you can create.

It might take just as much effort to fit in as it does to stand out, because you're standing up for yourself. It's those who take a risk and take chances who achieve greatness. Those who play it safe never can.

When someone calls another individual ugly, all I see is that the one doing the insulting becomes instantly less beautiful. Consider it a compliment to be mocked for being different.

Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.

I'm for anyone trying any kind of look. The only barrier is yourself. Do not worry about what other people think. - Angelique Noire

I say, enhance what others might deem less than wow and make that your beauty mark.

Everyone else can go ahead and live in their beige movie. I prefer mine in Technicolor. They might all look at me and they might talk about me and they might think I'm weird. And you know what? I couldn't possibly disappoint them. So let's not. Instead, let's show them how it's done.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.