When we are content and secure in ourselves, it leaves with having no desire to set ourselves up as superior to anyone else. When we simply celebrate our own individuality we allow others to do...

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give...

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual’s hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the...

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different

It’s so hard to express yourself.’ I understand this.’I want to express myself.’The same is true for me.’ I’m looking for my voice.’ It’s in your mouth.’ I want to do something I’m not ashamed...

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they...

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you...

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This...

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it’s the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different...

The same way a compact disk isn’t responsible for what’s recorded on it, that’s how we are. You’re about as free to act as a programmed computer. You’re about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

Everyone’s different, and in that way everyone’s the same. Stand out by sitting down. Try my love seat—it’s made for two people, so you can be comfortably obese.

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience…. If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

You call me the unhuman,” it might say to him, “and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself...

When I say “I,” I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of...

It’s idealistic, it’s for love and gentleness, it’s close to nature, it hurts nobody, it’s voluntary. I can’t see anything wrong with any of that.”Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be...

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

It’s good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn’t correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn’t fall...

Well, to tell you the truth, I’ve thought of it often and often before, but he’s such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all – you can’t imagine what a jovial good fellow he is...

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...

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...