Who are you?’I didn’t understand the question.I’m Uri’, he said. ‘What’s your name?’I gave him my name. ‘Stopthief.

A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing – It just indicates your state of mind ~ Ramana Pemmaraju

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as...

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

You can’t shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he’s done.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they live in a state of psychological distortion. It is his own self that each of them...

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can’t even find the model by which to live outside myself....

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

I am different, just like everyone else. And as such, I celebrate by being the same. The world won’t see a truly unique person until the first human clone arrives.

If you’re “one in a million”, and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

Remember: things only have the meaning and importance you give them.

Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability to change. Twenty-five key men destroyed could make the Soviet Union...

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you...

We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends— those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties, —...

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving catting of the majority.

Greaser ‘ didn’t have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn’t have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn’t have. It’s the individual.

We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the same quality, namely our uniqueness. What we have in common is the fact that we...

I want you to stop being subhuman and become ‘yourself’. ‘Yourself,’ I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor’s opinion, but ‘yourself.’ I know, and you don’t, what you really are deep...

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either...

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don’t like it.

Individuality or Unity? I say there’s room for both.

All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless of their relationship to the values of their community. Each lived according to what brought them happiness and peace rather...

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That’s concrete individuality: an individuality that it...

Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain?Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else’s.

Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. … But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more...

Please, touch me, I pray.

I don’t purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with...

Sem indivíduos, vemos apenas números: mil mortos, cem mil mortos, «as mortes podem chegar a um milhão». Com as histórias individuais, as estatísticas transformam-se em pessoas – mas até isso é mentira, pois as pessoas...

You are the gift that only you would have to give.

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

Every heart must have its privatebestseller book.

I am not a typical human being. I am me and don’t try to be anything but that because God didn’t give us all different fingerprints if he wanted us all to be the same....

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

Live up to your morals and values- whilst remaining aware of them, embrace your unique self, your individuality and be happy the way you are. Remembering to shift your focus to the goodness in your...

Schools train you to be ignorant with style […] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a...

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this...

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.