Quotes about Individuality

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces, And not in paths of high morality, And not among the half-distinguished faces, The clouded forms of long-past history. I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.

It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am.