Quotes about Individuality
Everyone should have a suit that's really well fitting - if a suit just doesn't fit, it looks ridiculous. It can purposely be too large or too small, if that's what you want, but it has to fit with your image and personal style.
- Stromae
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are constantly invited to be what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson