Quotes about Individuality
Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.
- Paulo Coelho
Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
- Paulo Coelho
It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.
- Paulo Coelho
Don't let other's say That road is better or That route is easier. The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.
- Paulo Coelho
His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
- Paulo Coelho
You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.
- Paulo Coelho
Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.
- Paulo Coelho
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.
- Paulo Coelho
We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.
- Paulo Coelho
I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.
- Paulo Coelho
Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem.
- Paulo Coelho
Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.
- Paulo Coelho