Quotes about Individuality
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!
— Jack Kerouac
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...
— Jack Kerouac
I think anyone who's willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That's what happens.
— Keith Flint
I was always a guy who could score the ball as a kid, but everybody wanted to score. And I always wanted to be different in some type of way.
— Andre Iguodala
I really want to do acting, and I don't want to be typecast because of my tattoos.
— James Arthur
In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.
— John F. Kennedy
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
— Maya Angelou
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
— Charlie Munger
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
— CS Lewis
What we have to be is what we are.
— Thomas Merton
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
— Thomas Merton