Quotes About Individuality

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I've always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific." – Chloe Traeger

For the love of all humanity, shake what your mama gave you!

You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us –- not someone like the rest of the world –- if we are to have any godly influence on them.

We agreed we're both troubled by the stiff-minded emphasis on the flag that grips much of the country these days. A flag, after all, is still only a cloth symbol. You don't show patriotism by showing blank-eyed love for a bit of cloth. And you can be deeply patriotic without covering your car with flag decals.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Find the stories you love, and don't ever let anyone tell you you're wrong for loving them. If

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory." -Commencement Speech

Each singer adds his own voice to the chorus but sings a song all his own.

Like many other animals, they are emotionally intelligent beings. A wolf knows who he is, and he sees his packmates as individuals. He has a concept of how his actions are perceived by others. He is capable of empathy, compassion, apology, and encouragement.

She—Sometimes you appear really manly and sometimes you are effeminate. How do you account for it? He—I suppose it is hereditary. Half of my ancestors were men and the other half were women.

how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

Anyone who hides within the crowd is a coward.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

LIFE HAS NO PLOT, WHY MUST FILMS OR FICTION?