Quotes about Individuality

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

Everything about my own face that seemed to me familiar and obvious had vanished; what remained was a distinctive scattering of dots that symbolized the planets set against the celestial vault. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

There is no question that the Four Spiritual Laws have been remarkably fruitful as a way of evangelism, but they are not good for everyone.

Being general, the categories never address us as individuals. At best our individuality is lost in the generality. At worst, it is contradicted and denied. Such categories force us to lie on their Procrustean bed, and anything about us that doesn't fit they lop off. They trim the picture of our personalities to fit their mass-produced frames.