Quotes about Individuality

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

In my life, being true to myself certainly hasn't made things easier. You could never accuse me of taking the path of least resistance.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I do not want to be restricted to a particular image.

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

I don't go to parties in general.

By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.

Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?' "4 The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself.

The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself."5

no other person has ever lived your life. You may be wondering what will happen if you engage in this journey of emotionally healthy spirituality, if you take seriously God's purpose for you to increasingly live faithfully out of the life he has given you.

God never asks us to annihilate the self. We are not to become "non-persons" when we become Christians. The very opposite is true. God intends our deeper, truer self, which he created, to blossom as we follow him.