#individuality

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#individuality

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#metaphor #individuality

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#reflection #individuality

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#individuality

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 Flaubert

#individuality #mediocrity #soul #individuality

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#individuality

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me. ↗

— John Lennon

#individuality #individuality

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#rarity #royalty #individuality

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself. ↗

— Iain Pears

#individuality #search #self-awareness #self-reliance #dreams

Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#back #came #cute #enough #genius