Quotes about Individuality

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

She was nobody, there was no reality in herself, the reality was all outside of her, and she must apply herself to it.

You can't lose yourself, neither in woman nor humanity nor in God. You've always got yourself on your hands in the end: and a very raw and jaded and humiliated and nervous-neurasthenic self it is, too, in the end.

Connie woke up to the existence of legs. They became more important to her than faces, which are no longer very real.

What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

One must strut, like a swan among geese.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside. His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.

So he smiled to himself, for a dangerous phenomenon in the world is a man of narrow belief, who denies the right of his neighbour to be alone.

People trudge through most days with little excitement in their lives. But our digital age provides so many opportunities to give people an authentic view of who you are or what your company strives to be, thus creating touch points of commonality that draw you into closer friendship with others.

You are one in seven billion—your progress is not meant for you alone.

For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.