“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”— Marc Jacobs, goodreads.com
“I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire...”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“We don’t exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”— Harvey Fierstein, goodreads.com
“We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.”— Erin Loechner, amazon.com
“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”— Rudyard Kipling, kiplingjournal.com
“It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beg…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“I have work, then a dinner thing, and then I am busy trying to become who I am.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“This rocking chair is so pointy, it's not giving me any room to express myself.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“You are from New York therefore you are just naturally interesting.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”— Johnny Depp, positivityblog.com
“Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com