Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

Oh, sometimes it’s just easier to please people,” Maria said finally.

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path....

My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story:...

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level,...

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don’t really care.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I don’t beg for those things which can be earned.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft’s immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

Follow the sincerity of your heart, it will always lead you on the right path” Cinderella in Focus: Cindy’s Secret

His twin brother died, and rather than assume he felt sad, I imagined he felt like an individual. Finally, he was one of one, not one of two.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background,” The Preacher said. “You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God’s hands.

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Individuality seems to be Nature’s whole aim — and she cares nothing for individuals.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can...

You will never be the best copycat in the world but you can be the best you

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

You are free. Your mind belongs to you. Your thoughts are yours. Honor the sacred territory of your freedom and individuality.

A world of fully developed individuals is immune to the cult of collectivism.

I have never tried to be a good person, or to appear to be a good person. What I do and what I have done is merely a side effect of my desire to become...

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

One of the telltale signs of one who has completely embraced their authentic self is that they are, with great consistency, the same person in public as they are behind closed doors. Until you learn...

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Knowing one’s ‘individuality’. – We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to...

Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.

God has enough blessing for every individual.

De geschiedenis van een mensenziel , zelfs van de allergeringste, is haast belangwekkender en leerrijker dan de geschiedenis van een geheel volk, vooral wanneer zij het resultaat is van een heldere geest, en wanneer zij...

There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; as a religious bigot, when charged with disregarding...

But every time I go to church with you, I feel like everyone’s trying to trap me in a room and convert me.’ Which, in truth, they are. ‘I want you, and your family, to...

Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual.” – Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

I’m ALL about the Alternative.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement...

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

Don’t you have any concept of individuality?” she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with her internal states.”Individuality is an unnecessary barrier to information transfer,” says the ghost, morphing into its original form, a...