Quotes about Individuality

What is the soul? Indie Arie: The real you. You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

The great American mythologist, author, and philosopher Joseph Campbell once said, "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

Every woman is a rebel.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

It's 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. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.