Quotes about Individuality

Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked; Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not, I will say what I have to say by itself, I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call, I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States, I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack

while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself. Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

Let your barbaric yop be heard through the rooftops!

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you. Why what have you thought of yourself? Is it you then that thought yourself less?

There is nothing stereotyped about God's dealings with His children. Therefore, we must not by our prejudices and preconceptions make watertight compartments for the working out His Spirit, either in our own lives or in the lives of others. We must leave God free to work as He wills and to leave what evidence He pleases of the work He does.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.