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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
― Albert Einstein

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
― Irving Wallace

“If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.”
― Thomas J. Watson

“A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.”
― Alan Sherman

“Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it”
― Paul Vixie

“It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform.”
― Leighton Meester, You Know You Want It: Style-Inspiration-Confidence

“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
― Jim Hightower

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
― Woody Allen

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
― Voltaire

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
― Albert Einstein

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.”
― Ron White

“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
― Francis Bacon

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”
― Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

“Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it can be very frightening! To very often have a blank page with nothing written on it yet! I feel as though I am a soul with a single covering–my body of skin– and that's the only thing between me on the inside and the rest of the world! It's quite frightening to begin each day on a blank page, forgetting your own preconceptions of yourself and allowing your mind to embrace the new! It is like meeting yourself for the first time, over and over again!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.”
― Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain