Quotes About Individuality

Don't live your life to please other people.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

My dream is to continue to be an artist who gets to be different individuals from different walks of life.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.

Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I've been myself my whole life.