Individuality Quotes

...at some indiscernible moment he sees all of us clearly — every face distinct, like immiscible droplets of water, all of us individuals constituting an interconnected sea of beings.

~ David Michael Miller

There are many fishes in the sea and then there are a few beautiful swishy mermaids. Me?! No I'm not the fish not even the mermaid, I don't belong to the sea. I am the Ocean! At a horizon far far away I'm a whirlpool of storm rising and chasing, twirling and dancing to my own tunes and at another all calm serene still and silent, I am the ocean! limitless boundless infinite and as beautiful as I may seem from the outside, I have life within!

~ Himanjali Singh

There are many fishes in the sea and then there are a few beautiful swishy mermaids. Me?! No, I'm not the fish not even the mermaid, I don't belong to the sea. I am the Ocean! At a horizon far far away I'm a whirlpool of a storm rising and chasing, twirling and dancing to my own tunes and at another all calm serene still and silent, I am the ocean! limitless boundless infinite and as beautiful as I may seem from the outside, I have life within!

~ Himanjali Singh

Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.

~ Rin Chupeco

I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars.

~ John Berger

This is the age of the individual and there is no reason to believe that this focus of mankind is likely to change in the foreseeable future. Hence, the mission is to put individualism inside a wide context and to give it meaning and a sense of direction; to empower it – but authentically this time.

~ Shai Tubali

So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?Yes, naturally.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

~ Douglas Pagels

Given that the Taliban is a Pashtun movement, the tendency of the Pashtun man to emphasize his individuality through disagreement rather than agreement will come to the fore after the disappearance of the already 'loose' authority of Mullah Omar.

~ Khaled Ahmed

The best life is a simple harmony between who you are and where you're going.

~ Garry Fitchett

Exercising your talents, passion, sense of judgment, and making a difference while doing something you love is the essence of life.

~ Garry Fitchett

Being in tune to one's Will and working accordingly shears the malaise of inauthenticity.

~ Garry Fitchett

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

~ A.e. Samaan

If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born

~ Hermann Hesse

The very point that you are not likened by somebody in proof of your authenticity and uniqueness.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happening in the world outside were important enough in their own way, but were personally quite irrelevant. Now, like the rest of my generation, I have had to learn again and again the terrible truth . . . that no life is really private, or isolated, or self-sufficient. People's lives were entirely their own, perhaps--and more justifiably--when the world seemed enormous, and all its comings and goings were slow and deliberate. But this is so no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.

~ Vera Brittain

Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.'Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all the fashion-challenged sailors. 'I feel sorry for them, of course, but I do not see why that observation should alter my current extremely stylish course of action.

~ Cassandra Clare

and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ownlives.

~ Charles Bukowski

And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are the enemies, and they most afflict the disciples who the most generously serve them. They insinuate their tyranny under a hundred guises and pompous names, such as Polite Society, the Family, the Church, Sound Business, the Party, the Country, the Superior White Race; and the only defense against them, Carol beheld, was unembittered laughter.

~ Sinclair Lewis

There is another more psychological obstacle to the full development of love in the modern world, and that is the fear that many people feel of not preserving their individuality in tact. This is a foolish and rather modern terror. Individuality is not an end in itself; it is something that must enter into fructifying contact with the world, and in so doing must lose its separateness. An individuality which is kept in a glass case withers, whereas on e that is freely expended in human contacts becomes enriched.

~ Bertrand Russell

Why--? he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, when they're so lovely--She too looked at the girl, who was fastening a flower that had come undone in the front of her frock. She smiled. She said nothing. Then half consciously she echoed his question without a meaning in her echo, Why?He was dashed for a moment. It seemed to him that she refused to help him. And he wanted her to help him. Why should she not take the weight off his shoulders and give him what he longed for --assurance, certainty? Because she too was deformed like the rest of them? He looked down at her hands. They were strong hands; fine hands; but if it were a question, he thought, watching the fingers curl slightly, of my children, of my possession, it would be one rip down the belly; or teeth in the soft fur of the throat. We cannot help each other, he thought, we are all deformed. Yet, disagreeable as it was to him to remove her from the eminence upon which he placed her, perhaps she was right, he thought, and we who make idols of other people, who endow this man, that woman, with power to lead us, only add to the deformity, and stoop ourselves.

~ Virginia Woolf

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

~ Noam Chomsky

Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Everyone just wants to be like that Somebody else. Ironically, that Somebody wishes to just be like everyone else. If this is achieved, however, individuality is annihilated.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

If you're wonderful in any way somebody will fuck with you. Just like if you're horrible in any way they're gonna fuck with you. The world is for the average and the common. Those are the people who never hurt - they just fall asleep. The rest of us, we're The Walking Wounded.

~ Kim Fowley

What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?

~ Donald Miller

Courage is being yourself in a world that almost seems to endorse conformity.

~ Todd William

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

~ Saint Ignatius (Of Loyola)

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.

~ Jerry Spinelli

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now” from Cinderella In Focus

~ H.l. Balcomb

The complexity of the so-called individual that’s been praised for decades in America somehow has narrowed itself to the ‘me’. When I was a young girl we were called citizens – American citizens. We were second-class citizens, but that was the word. In the 50s and 60s they started calling us consumers. So we did – consume. Now they don’t use those words any more – it’s the American taxpayer and those are different attitudes.

~ Toni Morrison

Men are different, sheep are all alike.

~ Raheel Farooq

In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.

~ Chloe Thurlow

The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.'How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you from all others. Your virtue. Your vision that makes you separate from others. I remembered that he quoted Robert Duncan. 'Soul is not universal. It is a created-creative event.

~ Sharon Doubiago

Words are not the answer. Only the feelings you as an individual get from them are.

~ Matthew Donnelly

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.

~ Fennel Hudson

Somewhere along the way people became afraid to be single. To be unmarried, separate from others and lost their individuality searching for it in society’s view of relationships.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: ‘Don’t waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!’I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.

~ Tahir Shah

We are flowers in the field seeking our individuality. We may seem similar but we are all unique, without exception. Everyone is special.

~ Chloe Thurlow