999 Quotes About Individuality

Individuality might grate on someone’s nerves, so they had sanded away all my edges until I was beautiful and bland and utterly boring.

Maybe if I’d learned my lessons with a more dedicated heart, I would be better behaved now, but could anyone truly be erased by zealous teachers and societal pressures?

And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might.

Μόλις τον είχαν εξορίσει και ήταν έτοιμος να πολεμήσει το Σμήνος μέχρι θανάτου, αρχίζοντας από το χτίσιμο της προσωπικής του πικρής κόλασης.

Integral to being emotionally healthy is to have a mother who has the ability to respect her child's differences and not perceive them as betrayals.

But there’s a stillness to you. Like if you were a radio wave, you’d have your very own frequency.

I believe in individuality, but individuals are to the mass, like waves to the ocean. The highest order of genius is as dependent as the lowest. It, like the loftiest waves of the sea, derives its power . . . from the grandeur and vastness of the ocean of which it forms a part. We differ as the waves, but are one as the sea.

It is tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die. ‘Nothing is more rare in any man,’ says Emerson, ‘than an act of his own.’ It is quite true. Most people are other people.

That is because one realises one’s soul only by getting rid of all alien passions, all acquired culture, and all external possessions, be they good or evil.