Quotes about Individuality

We can't all be captains; we've got to be crew. There's something for all of us here. There's big work to do and there's lesser to do and the task we must do is the near. If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, if you can't be the sun, be a star; it isn't by the size that you win or you fail, be the best of whatever you are!

Fact 1: It is okay to be who you are wherever you are.

Great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

I want to change my name on Facebook to "Nobody," so when I see someone posting something stupid I can Like their post and it will say "Nobody likes this."

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.

He would get up in the midst of the crowded shop, interrupting the conversation, and start outside to relieve himself. "All who can't swim, mount the highest bench," he would cry out, "for the great he-elephant will now make water!

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up