Individuality Quotes
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
"Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself."
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."
"I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove."
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?"
"The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!"
"I am not strange. I am just not normal."
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
"People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people."
"If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different "
"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled."
"We all know that distinctiveness – originality – is valuable. We are all taught to “be yourself. What I’m really asking you to do is to embrace and be realistic about how much energy it takes to maintain that distinctiveness. The world wants you to be typi"
"You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth it. The fairy tale version of ‘be yourself’ is that all the pain stops as soon as you allow your distinctiveness to shine. That version is misleading. Being yourself is worth it, but don’t ex"
"Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous."
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."