Jean Henri Fabre Quotes

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

I just want to find my individuality.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I try to be me to the utmost.

I can't not be who I am.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.