Quotes About Individuality

You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

Nobody ever reads the same book twice.

They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant making us like themselves.

When I hear girls I know longing to be what they call liberated, and when I hear others rejoicing in what they think of as liberation, I feel a fool, because I simply do not know where I stand. (Maria Magdalena Theotoky)

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

She's too much like him in temperament. Married couples should complement each other, and not merely double their losses. There's much to be said for the square peg in the round hole, as the Cubist told the Vorticist.

I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two sides to him.

The borborygmy, or rumbling of the stomach, has not received the attention from either art or science which it deserves. It is as characteristic of each individual as the tone of the voice. It can be vehement, plaintive, ejaculatory, conversational, humorous -- its variety is boundless. But there are few who are prepared to give it an understanding ear; it is dismissed too often with embarrassment or low wit.

Thelonious Monk's music is essentially about freedom.

Strange I may be, but clingy I am not.

I think you're perfect just the way you are. Don't change anything.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects.

Rosie hated her curly golden hair. When she was old enough to hold minimal conversations, the itsy-bitsy-cutesycoo sort of grown-ups would pull the soft ringlets gently and tell her what a pretty little girl she was. She would stare at this sort of grown-up and say, "I am not pretty. I am intelligent. And brave.

She had always been the least of the sisters, called Beauty because she had no other, better characteristic to name her as herself.

She was unambiguously herself.

Da una parte c'è la pressione delle convinzioni nostre e della società, condizionate come sono, dalla necessità e dai tempi in cui viviamo. Dall'altra, c'è l'esortazione del cuore che ci dice: Resta sempre fedele a te stesso. Sopra ogni altra cosa.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness.

Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.