If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
individuality dissent freedom-of-thought
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
individuality fish eccentricity
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 of.'Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.
individuality expression
If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.
individuality
We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
individuality uniqueness opposites
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
individuality difference isolation suicide
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
individuality uniqueness self-expression
I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.
individuality metaphor
Why would I want to fit in?
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
individuality reflection
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.
individuality beatles
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
individuality royalty
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
individuality psychology introspection consciousness
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
individuality be-yourself ecstasy
If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
individuality difference normal
I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
I do my thing and you do yours.I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, And if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
The unique must be fulfilled.
individuality originality
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
individuality conformity
Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, 'She wants her cup of stars.'Indeed yes, Eleanor thought; indeed, so do I; a cup of stars, of course.'Her little cup,' the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill's good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. 'It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.' The waitress nodded, unconvinced, and the mother told the little girl, 'You'll have your milk from your cup of stars tonight when we get home. But just for now, just to be a very good little girl, will you take a little milk from this glass?'Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
individuality certainty
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
individuality difference imitation conformity
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
individuality uniqueness libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty
I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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