Quotes About Individuality

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I who have nothing may have nothing, but I'll always have something that you don't. And that's respect.

Que me importa lo que hizo Maradona con su vida. Me importa lo que hizo con la mía.

Aunque ser distinta signifique ser maravillosa, de igual manera trae problemas. Quizá la solución es ser distinto a solas, escondido, en tu casa, en tu pieza, a lo más con un amigo al frente, pero nada de actuar fuera de lo normal en la calle, delante de otras personas, y mucho menos en el colegio. Si no, al final uno termina solo.

I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

Midlife is the perfect time to embrace your inner passions and let it drive you to do your own thing.

Be the star of your own life.

I'm proud to be a freak of nature.

Besides, dressing like I want to be invisible only makes me feel weak. I have to be strong. So if that means wearing cute boots and nice pants and a sweet blue shirt that looks especially good on me today for some reason if I do say so myself, then so be it.

Who are you? Just because you break hearts doesn't make you a heartbreaker. Just because you get straight A's doesn't make you a success. Just because you have a college consultant doesn't make you college bound. Just because you fail to act doesn't make you cowardly. Just because you need help, doesn't make you weak. Just because the world sees you as something or as nothing doesn't mean anything at all.

My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But (...) I like him. He mocks me, but from him, it seems a kindness. He makes me feel, well, important. That he could choose me to talk to.

What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not.

You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.

I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

How strange to be loved simply for who I was.

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not because someone decreed if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

It doesn't matter who a man's father is. Your parents made a child, but it's up to you to make the man you'll be.

I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon.