#individuality

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."

"She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world."

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"

"But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope."

"Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe."

"Bring something incomprehensible into the world!"

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."

"the worst thing,"he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter."

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."

"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"

"A peaceful feeling: A happy harmony or symphony of all of our character pieces working in powerful unison” from Cinderella In Focus"

"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."

"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."

"I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way."

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."

"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"

"Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now” from Cinderella In Focus"

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."