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“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is...” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each one of us individually.” 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture
“No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“For there is no art where there is no style, and no style where there is no unity, and unity is of the individual.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“To say 'I love you’ one must know first how to say the ’I.’” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“The aim of life is self-development.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“Everyone’s in their own personal coma.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any...” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“each of us knows only his own unhappiness.” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
“Only by the reflex of other lives can he ripen his specialty, develop the idea of himself, the individuality that distinguishes him from every other.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“There are individual men and women, and there are families” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“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 which he hears, however measured or far away.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“It is very easy to become so absorbed in our own pursuits, our own circle, our own type of work, that we forget how small a part this is of the total of human activity and how many things in the world are entirely unaffected by what we do.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.” Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream
“The chief thing I shouldn't like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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