Quotes about Individuality

Life...is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.

God go with you." "I don't believe in God." "That's all right. I do." "I'm glad.

Only a human being can say I'm sorry. Forgive me. This is part of our particularity. It is part of what makes us capable of tears, capable of laughter.

Its good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what youve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; youll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, youll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

The discovery of your life's purpose is your ultimate pathway to an extraordinary life. You were born an original, so quit conforming to the expectations of others.

Find your uniqueness and embrace it with pride.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.

We are all special cases.

Being conformist and respectful as I was of the grown-up world and its prevailing values, and having no brothers or sisters or friends to counterbalance the personality cult that surrounded me, I had no alternative but to concur, humbly but thoroughly, with the grown-ups' opinion of me.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.