Quotes About Individuality

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

When Cliff saw Belmondo in Breathless, he thought, That guy looks like a fucking monkey. But a monkey I like.

You can't trust Melanie, but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie.

A dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.

God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us. —St. Augustine

Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.

miguelito] Qué seré grande yo cuando sea grande, no sé. Lo que sí sé es que no seré uno más del montón. Eso sé! [mafalda] Otro más que engrosa el montón de los que no quieren ser uno más del montón!

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

I am the only guinea pig I have.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.

Reading is only dangerous to those who are afraid to imagine,' Mr. Oku says. 'If there is one thing I hope you got out of the Earnest Book Club, it is that each of you is not afraid to use your imagination. That you have accepted Oscar Wilde's invitation to dare. The dare to read books, banned or not. The dare to think. The dare to imagine. The dare to speak your mind. And the dare to be yourself.

I am perfectly well and happy here.... All I want is to be left alone to live my life as I wish and not as other people think best for themselves.

I must be very selfish, she thought, for I want to set nothing and no one right; all I want is to be left in peace to make what I can of this problem called life for myself and my children.

I'm sorry... but it's true?you can't live other people's lives for them. Go home and make something worth while of your own.

Not that her life had been unhappy, it had just not been her life at all.

she covered her ears with her hands, for fear that old custom of obeying other people's plans for her should prevail yet again.

Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

It is not necessary that every mountain has a precious stone's mine, every elephants forehead is adorned with the mother of pearl, every place is inhabited by gentlemen and every forest contains sandalwood trees. In other words, this world is inhabited by people of different characteristics. We must, therefore, develop contacts only with gentlemen and superior persons. This will ensure fulfilment of the desired work.

Man will be fully a person, a per se subsistens and a per se operans, only in so far as the life of reason and liberty dominates that of the senses and passions in him; otherwise he will remain like the animal, a simple individual, the slave of events and circumstances, always led by something else, incapable of guiding himself; he will be only a part, without being able to aspire to the whole.

To develop one's individuality is to live the egoistical life of the passions, to make oneself the centre of everything, and end finally by being the slave of a thousand passing goods which bring us a wretched momentary joy. Personality, on the contrary, increases as the soul rises above the sensible world and by intelligence and will binds itself more closely to what makes the life of the spirit.