Quotes about Individuality

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny.

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".

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.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

I didn't want to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better. If I did what everybody else did, then why would you look up to me? Why would I set an example?

I can't do anything about what other people expect me to do.

I'm proud to say I've never listened to that 'Gangnam Style.'

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.