Quotes about Individuality

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

Everyone has their own way of learning.

Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.