Quotes about Individuality

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.