If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
Vincent O'SullivanTags: individuality difference normal
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level
Gustave FlaubertTags: individuality identity soul mediocrity
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Theodore RooseveltTags: individuality liberty equality freedom patriotism patriotic self-respect independence respect americanism
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: individuality self-expression uniqueness
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
Carl SaganTags: individuality love humanity mercy
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Wendelin Van DraanenTags: individuality life beauty people enthusiasm ebullience
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
Edith SitwellTags: individuality eccentricity fish catfish eels
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
George CarlinTags: individuality nature individualism heroism hero grass
I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
Clarice LispectorTags: individuality identity
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham LincolnTags: individuality family live-in-the-moment self-determination live-in-the-here-and-now present-moment
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