Quotes about Individuality

The God of Christianity does not erase our individual identity but actually affirms it, calling us to become ever more fully the unique individuals we were created to be. Contrary to Eastern mysticism, the goal is not to suppress our desires, but to direct our desires to what truly satisfies—to a passionate love relationship with the ultimate Person.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

Everything about my own face that seemed to me familiar and obvious had vanished; what remained was a distinctive scattering of dots that symbolized the planets set against the celestial vault. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.