Quotes about Individuality

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

The absolutely highest stage of intercourse with God is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament Church, when man's individuality is not superseded nor suppressed, but transformed, and thus conformed to Him in spiritual fellowship.

You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.

But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

You're like the weird fucked-up sister of yourself, Shelby. Whereas I'm just an extension of my loser self that anyone could have foreseen. I have followed the path set out before me. You veered.

Now Franny understood that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.

Oh, how Vincent wished he could tell his sisters how unexpected everything was. He wished they could sit down at the table, today, in the sunlight, so that he could tell them everything. Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.

In such great works I found enlightenment and came to understand that everything God creates is a miracle, individually and unto itself.

She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.