There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism — self-denial.

I’m myself, not a label.

The pieces of a puzzle aren’t together or apart.

your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God...

My mother said to me, ”If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso....

To influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there...

For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a...

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or — most crucially of all, for a teenage girl — simply uncool....

A person who has got truly his own hands in bagging the position where he stands in his career and society only gets the good friends in his life.

I don’t fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.

You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you’re not just somebody’s broken puppet anymore. Choose.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay...

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

I’d love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn’t bother me to be as alone as a tree on...

Take pride in your uniqueness.You are powerful individual.

A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold...

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

[…] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and...

You can’t guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from “peer pressure”.

Penguins don’t waste their time trying to fly. They’re unique. They know they were built for the water.

Being an outsider doesn’t necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

It’s normal to dream about anything at all. It’s not normal to dream someone else’s dreams.” -Arthur Mentis

Believe it or not, some of us have piercings and tattoos and dye our hair because we think it looks pretty, not for any deep sociological reason. This isn’t an act of protest against cultural...

Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations…

People seem to set there standards to high. They let Society distort there idea of finding that life partner.If you’re willing to let go of the conformity and individualize your ideas that’s when you will...

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do...

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else’s. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I’ve noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s...

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

Is it really so terrible being around us?”I blushed. “No,” I said. “But . . . it’s complicated. I’ve been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake.””The greatest changes in history...

Being a Individual means your views are your own, and they can’t be changed by those around you !

One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that’s not what it’s about. It can’t be about ‘My book sold more copies than your book.’ It can’t...

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.