Individuality Quotes
Jess C. Scott
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
2415 Carl Sagan
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.
3611 Leo Tolstoy
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.
4749 Rita Mae Brown
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
1182 Neil Gaiman
Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I'm not mistaken...
Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure...
Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.
1622 Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement
1687 Jess C. Scott
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.
2512 Jess C. Scott
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.
1417 Jess C. Scott
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
2982 Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590 Red Haircrow
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
2423 Jim Morrison
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.
4325 Jess C. Scott
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?
2502 William Golding
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
1639 Roman Payne
When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
2557 Alan Sheinwald
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
1668 Amit Kalantri
I don't beg for those things which can be earned.
4698 Amit Kalantri
No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.
2155 Amit Kalantri
Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.
1505 Ashly Lorenzana
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.
4764 Ashly Lorenzana
The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.
3226 Ashly Lorenzana
The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.
3761 J.E.B. Spredemann
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
1919 Jeff Goins
If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.
3013 Lailah Gifty Akita
If every individual should plant a tree in their life time, the world will be full of trees.
4258 Harvey Fierstein
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
3531 Oliver James
why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out
2045 Wendelin Van Draanen
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.
2066 Miguel Syjuco
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
2971 Jean M. Auel
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.
4462 Mel Brooks
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
2359 Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
3466 Oprah Winfrey
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.
3482 Lewis Black
Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
1750 C. JoyBell C.
I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
1590 Sarah Vowell
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.
1112 Sharon Maas
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.
1423 Cristina Marrero
I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.
1325 Suzanne Gordon
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
2397 Walpola Rahula
There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.
1926 Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
3030 Bruce Lee
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
3581 G.K. Chesterton
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism - self-denial.
4721 Darnell Houston
People seem to set there standards to high. They let Society distort there idea of finding that life partner.
If you're willing to let go of the conformity and individualize your ideas that's when you will find true and utter happiness.
1451 Charles Bukowski
the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.
3236 Isabel Quintero
Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.
4423 Howard Zinn
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
2806 Hlbalcomb
Soulful intent...A perspective that reminds us that our understanding is not the only way" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
1293 Hlbalcomb
We mature not by years, but by stories…" Cinderella In Focus:Cindy's Secret
1750 Hlbalcomb
A soul wound doesn't grow a new layer of normality overnight" Cinderella in Focus: Cindy'Secret
4200 Hlbalcomb
Follow the sincerity of your heart, it will always lead you on the right path" Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
4160 Hlbalcomb
Being - a state that is open to life yet connected to this moment" Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
3798 Hlbalcomb
It's our journey to search for that piece of our soul with our life's purpose written on it." Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
1481 Hlbalcomb
Our Higher Self: The part of us that is connected to nature and also humanity" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
3660 Hlbalcomb
Life’s heartbeat...the soul seeds of opportunity" by Cinderella in Focus
4317 E.A. Bucchianeri
...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.
2251 Walt Whitman
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
2383 George Orwell
At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.
4702 Michael Lewis
If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.
2849 Johnny Cash
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.
1160 Eric Hoffer
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
4831 James Baldwin
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
4892 Lailah Gifty Akita
The uniqueness of different colours represents the uniqueness of individuals!
4346 Nikki Rowe
I meet many a man, working ridiculous house for a wage that merely adds to their happiness, and if man can be so pre-occupied in waking for another's dream; than my experience has taught me one thing, the magic of our world exists in those who create alchemy from the dirt they have been shoved upon.
4745 Confucius
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
1886 Stephen Lovegrove
Here’s what I believe. We have control over ourselves at every single moment. We don’t control the world. We don’t control other people (or at least, we shouldn’t.) But we are in control of our experience at all times.
1037 Lawrence Block
The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.
1850 Tim Fargo
When there is silence,
Give your voice.
When there is darkness,
Shine your light.
When there is desperation,
Offer hope.
4514 Milena Michiko Flašar
How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.
4402 Terry Crouson
One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit.
2806 Marty Rubin
The pieces of a puzzle aren't together or apart.
1831 Nick Hornby
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
3294 Douglas Coupland
Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.
1399 Daisaku Ikeda
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.
4228 Ray Bradbury
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.
3104 Kat Von D
To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.
3093 Margaret Sartor
Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already
3440 Gayle Forman
Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.
4003 Gilles Deleuze
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
4200 Noam Chomsky
المثقف من حمل الحقيقة في وجه القوة ('cultured from carrying the truth in the face of power')
2445 Rudyard Kipling
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
3136 Ray Bradbury
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving catting of the majority.
2450 Jane Lotter
I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way-in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel-really is lovely.
2170 Bobbi Brown
When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficult
to take chances in expressing our individuality.
2278 George Carlin
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
3718 Lame Deer
A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.
1113 Marcel Duchamp
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
3065 Orhan Pamuk
We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful.
3024 H. L. Balcomb
I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity.
1891 K. Hari Kumar
Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.
2516 Amit Kalantri
Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.
4520 Abraham Lincoln
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
3283 Kathy Magliato
I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.
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