Quotes About Individuality

You are every bit as normal as any other boy, in here, where it counts. Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.

Victory is never won by the multitudes.

It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

I am A man, not a sponge! If god wished a sponge to think, A SPONGE WOULD THINK!

To be me is to be different...

Cómo se parece a mí ?pensó?, y, por fortuna, qué distinto es de mí.

You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any.Join the United States and join the family—But not much in between unless a college.

It asks a little of us here.It asks of us a certain height,So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may take something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.