Quotes about Individuality

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

I don't know that I think women have to throw out the fairy tale ending. I just think they have to decide what their fairy tale ending is - and not go with the standard one that everyone's told them they're supposed to have.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Sometimes it takes travelling the world to realize that it isn't ok to be different, it's freaking awesome!

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice. But we will know what you have done. And in your heart, so will you. And that is more than heroic. It is noble.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you. Anytime you reject any part of yourself, you are rejecting God's wisdom and sovereignty in creating you.

Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.

C. S. Lewis observed, "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.