Individuality Quotes
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
"We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."
"why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out"
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are"
"Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...."He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare."
"Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken."
"I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I"in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I"in independence, individuality and integrity."
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."
"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"
"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."
"I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way."
"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"
"Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals."
"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."
"The difference between you and everyone else, is everyone else. And that’s a lot, so you should feel special."
"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."
"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
"Everyone’s different, and in that way everyone’s the same. Stand out by sitting down. Try my love seat—it’s made for two people, so you can be comfortably obese."
"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."
"Please, touch me, I pray."
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
"Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe."
"You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil."
"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone."
"Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level"
"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."
"Bring something incomprehensible into the world!"
"It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it."
"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."
"She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world."
"I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might."
"I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?"
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