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#1

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

tags: flaws, individuality

4249 likes

#2

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality

2512 likes

#3

“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: individuality

2174 likes

#4

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: be-yourself, individuality, love

2232 likes

#6

“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: autonomy, bachelorhood, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, love, marriage, matrimony, men, self-determination, self-sufficiency, singles, strength, women

3966 likes

#7

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth

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#8

“Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: be-yourself, individuality, self-determination

1638 likes

#9

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: individuality, inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance

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#10

“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 Carlin

tags: grass, hero, heroism, individualism, individuality, nature

2483 likes

#11

“Where's your will to be weird?”
― Jim Morrison

tags: individuality, musicians, weirdness, wierd

1276 likes

#12

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women

3347 likes

#13

“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 Draanen, Flipped

tags: beauty, ebullience, enthusiasm, individuality, life, people

1475 likes

#14

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
― Johnny Cash

tags: black, hypocrisy, individuality, religion, status-quo

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#15

“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

tags: body, books, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth

667 likes

#16

“I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
― Johnny Depp

tags: individuality, johnny-depp, weird

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#17

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: conditioning, evolution, evolving, freedom, individuality, jim-morrison, murder, parents, potential, progress, self, self-awareness

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#18

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

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#19

“Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do we mean we want more originality and individuality? Less TV, more reading, writing, actual thinking? Less sheep, more shepherd pie? Yes, yes, and a little more pie, please. Oh, and some more sweet tea, too”
― Jarod Kintz, I Should Have Renamed This

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#20

“Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.”
― Frederick Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim

tags: individuality

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#21

“Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, 'She wants her cup of stars.'

Indeed yes, Eleanor thought; indeed, so do I; a cup of stars, of course.

'Her little cup,' the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill's good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. 'It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.' The waitress nodded, unconvinced, and the mother told the little girl, 'You'll have your milk from your cup of stars tonight when we get home. But just for now, just to be a very good little girl, will you take a little milk from this glass?'

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: individuality

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#22

“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
― Red Haircrow

tags: creative-process, creative-thinking, creative-writing, creativity, individuality, life, life-lessons, reality, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart, writing-process

217 likes

#23

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

tags: the-lady-of-the-haunted-house

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#24

“The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
who had many eyes.

She was really quite pretty
(and also quite shocking!)
and I noticed she had a mouth,
so we ended up talking.

We talked about flowers,
and her poetry classes,
and the problems she'd have
if she ever wore glasses.

It's great to know a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries.”
― Tim Burton

tags: eyes, poetry

240 likes

#25

“True love doesn't need proof.
The eyes told what heart felt.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: eyes, heart, proof, true-love

338 likes

#26

“Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

tags: advertisements, eyes, happiness, judgement, movies, society

175 likes

#27

“When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

tags: eyes, fake, kiss, love, staring, time

141 likes

#28

“I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

tags: blue, eyes, love, shatter-me, tenderness

115 likes

#29

“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: ambition, art, artist, eyes, love, master, work

165 likes

#30

“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: farewells, gandalf, goodbye, leaving, sorrow

842 likes

#31

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

tags: all, better-go, just, leaving, words

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