This quote is significant in today's world. This world has many expectations from any person, this world wants people to follow its norms and do what is considered normal. This world wants us to be like everyone else. In this world, it is like a battle to be yourself and follow a different path. The world always have trouble in adopting new things, and to not have to have this trouble it forces the people trying to adopt new things to abandon the new things. So, it is really difficult to be yourself in this world.
This quote not only tells us this universal truth, but also encourages us to be ourselves and not follow the crowd, even if this world wants and forces us to.