Quotes about Individuality
The wise do not classify. The wise do not want to be classified. Classifying people is not classy.
- Lisa Bevere
I don't need to roar, for I hold the power of the whisper. I don't have to be black or white ... for I am the color and beauty of creation!
- Lisa Bevere
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
- Henry David Thoreau
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
- John Ortberg
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
- Joseph Campbell
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
- Kesha
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.
- Paulo Coelho
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.
- Henry B. Eyring