Non Conformity Quotes - Page 2

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

Kurt Cobain

Dream, Simple Life, Want

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

Paul Vixie

Rebel, Path, Conformity

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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

Anais Nin

Break Up, Creating, People

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The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjold

Inspiration, Journey, Inward

"Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Stockard Channing

Girl, Normal, Conformity

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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Inspirational, Writing, Giving

Espana, 20 Nov. 1920

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

George Eliot

Country, Spiritual, Taken

'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 3, ch. 24

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What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Albert Camus

Men, Rebel, Conformity

L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel) pt. 1 (1951)

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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, Heart, Dark

The House of the Seven Gables ch. 11 (1851)

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There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

John Elder Robison

People, Routine, World

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To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

Carl Rogers

Different, Conformity, Mental Health

Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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."

Allan Sherman

Color, Being Different, Might

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Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."

Nancy Mairs

Thinking, Differences, Being Different

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... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

Shang Yang

Independent, Ideas, Conformity

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Witty, People, Conformity

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

William Carlos Williams

Roots, Youth, Conformity

William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.

Giorgos Seferis

Loneliness, Dark, Other Worlds

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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Success, Responsibility, Assuming

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Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Healing, Emotional, Flow

Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Jean Dubuffet

Goodbye, Farewell, Long

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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Louis Kronenberger

Revolution, Conformity, Rebellion

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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Louis Kronenberger

Being Yourself, Being Single, Individuality

"Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

Alan Cumming

Different, Conformity, Easy

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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

Character, Order, Break Through

John Stuart Mill (2003). “Mill's On Liberty”, p.81, Agora Publications, Inc.

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Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

Alice Sebold

Firsts, Conformity, Weirdness

Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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