Quotes about Individuality

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,   You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.

Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth, Each of us here as divinely as any is here.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; And your very flesh shall be a great poem…

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?

He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.

In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.