Quotes About Nonconformity

Leadership requires great courage. It is tough to leave the gravitational pull of the crowd around us. It is tough to take the road less traveled when everyone urges you to be like everyone else. It is tough to create your life on your own terms when others are telling you how your life should be created. But nothing will fill your heart with a greater sense of regret than lying on your deathbed knowing that you did not live your life and do your dreams.

La única manera de lidiar con este mundo sin libertad es volverte tan absolutamente libre que tu mera existencia sea un acto de rebelión».

Being different is really cool. And eccentricity is very hip.

Do not rush to follow the crowd, it might be a funeral procession

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

You are a deviant from the social norm! Is that an insult or a diagnosis?

Why do what everyone else is doing?

Generally I avoid having things to do. Clearly a reaction against literal regimentation earlier in my life. The result is I have no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there.

Oh I know what they say about us in town, and I say, the hell with them! I tell you, I don't give a damn. I have got to be an old woman in the twinkling of an eye, and it is sort of a relief, I can tell you. I do what I want to now. Last week I traded all our eggs for ice cream at Holden's Grocery. Now that I have shrunk down little as a child, I figure I might as well act like one. I don't care. I like ice cream. Juney does too. We like to put bourbon in it, and make ourselves a milkshake.

DON'T TOUCH A CLICHÈ WITH A TEN-FOOT POLE

The notion of the opposite sex assumes that you are either masculine or feminine. It assumes a one dimensional continuum: feminine - masculine. But researchers have known for more than forty years that that notional is just isn't accurate.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret: All the best people are.

Am I mad?" "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers! But I'll tell you a secret… all of the best people are!

A very merry unbirthday to you

She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She'd tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she'd accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was "that awful O'Neill girl" all over again.

And sometimes I just don't want to sparkle.

No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she'd just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.

Don't tell anybody, but sometimes, I just don't want to sparkle.

I love you for who you are, not for who the world thinks you should be.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

I say long live the bountiful personality. Long live the people who make people mad. Long live the ones who won't listen to sense. Long live the people who are forever getting warned, one of these times, you're going to go too far! Long live the fiery, the unguilty, the unhumble, the dazzling, the cheerful and the brave. Even if they don't live long, even if they look obnoxious or even stupid in a certain light, they're still wonderful and magnificent to me, and they're free free free.