Quotes about Individuality

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

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

Everyone is different. One of the fundamental principles that Yogi Raman taught me was that truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself," Julian replied.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

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.

Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

I'm afraid so.Your totally bonkers.But I tellyou a secret.All the best people are.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.