Quotes about Individuality

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Always be yourself. Express yourself, have faith in yourself. Don't go looking for a successful personality and just duplicate it.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality

Queequeg no care what god made him shark,' said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.

When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.

Follow your own star!

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.