Menachem Mendel Schneerson Quotes

I must be allowed to be as I am.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I'm not driven by being understood.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I don't care what other people think. I hate conforming, that you have to wear this to a business meeting or that to a dinner. I've never worked that way.

I had my own mind made up in that I was going to do my own thing. I wasn't going to copy from this guy or that guy.

I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

I don't want to change the world, I don't want the world to change me.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

Don't live your life to please other people.

My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.