"Conformity is the ape of harmony...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.”

“A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.”

“We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.”

“New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.”

“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”

“For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.”

“Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.”

“Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.”

“I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving upon the path in harmony with your idea of that which is good.”