Quotes about Individuality

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.

It's true of Jamie. But I want it to be true of you too. And for that matter, me. I don't believe we are accidents in the world, and I don't believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle. Jamie, Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?