What you feel, however unsure you are, is YOU.There can never be anything more important than that.

Not at all. It’s why people come. They say it’s about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it’s not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women...

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the...

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himself.” –

She was looking for something I could never give her.” Again his dark eyes bored into Julia’s mind. “You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don’t think you will...

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This...

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we’re good with our mouths too…(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Let your eyes see what they see, not what others want you to see. Let your ears hear what they naturally hear, not what others want you to hear. Let your mouth speak your mind...

I am not a number; I am a free man.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two...

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That’s the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they...

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Nowadays, ads don’t just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here’s a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this...

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

To the untrained eye, Ben had nothing, at least by the bizarre rules that governed high school. But really, Ben was one of the few who wasn’t pretending, one of the few who was free.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.

If every individual should plant a tree in their life time, the world will be full of trees.

individuality” lost.

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn’t mean I could speak for all young people.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

There can’t be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn’t room. There can’t be.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

What did I fear, and why? — I, to whom the night had beena more familiar facethan that of man —I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether...

A person can’t pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

the worst thing,” he told me,”is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a...

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more...

Life’s heartbeat…the soul seeds of opportunity” by Cinderella in Focus

To treat everyone equally is offensive, because it fails to recognize anyone as an individual.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way–in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel–really is lovely.

What’s truly important–and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn–is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people’s individuality. Just because they’re not on your path doesn’t mean they are on the wrong track.

If we wish to know about a man, we ask ‘what is his story–his real, inmost story?’–for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed,...

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

I can’t help remembering that good old wild Thoreau wound up a tame surveyor of Concord house lots. […] How would I know what it means? I don’t know what anything means. What it suggests...

What I am in the eyes of most people – a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person – somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of...

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.