Individuality quotes
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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.
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We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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.
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
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.
No human relation gives one possession in another-every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
If you obliterate the boundaries of your individuality, whether it's a man, woman, child or an animal, you see them as a part of yourself. You shall live in a state of absolute empathy.
Individuals should shape their lives according to their particular needs, not according to social trends
There is no universal salvation without individual salvation, There is no universal transformation without individual transformation
An enlightened yogi does not lose the individuality of his soul; instead, he finds his being extended into the Being of the Spirit
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself
The individually created past-life patterns make one person different from another, & account for the great variety of human faces & characteristics. The very fact that you are a woman or a man was determined by your tendencies in previous lives
Maya, the cosmic magical measurer, produces the illusion of dividing a portion of the Indivisible Infinite into separate finite objects, even as a calm ocean becomes distorted into individual waves on its surface by the action of a storm.
In the universe, everything is made of the singular consciousness of God. When a spark of that consciousness is individualized by God, it becomes a soul
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is an individualized spirit
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.