Quotes About Uniqueness

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

We are on a rock travelling around 1 of 100 billion stars. Our species is 1 of over half a billion that have ever existed. Our chances of being born are about 1 in 400 trillion. You're not special, but you are fucking lucky. Enjoy your amazing life. You'll never exist again.

There is nothing more awesome than being yourself.

It gets harder to name children when you get older. Because by the time you're in your thirties every name you think of reminds you of someone you hate. We have to hurry; we're down to Jethro and Nefertiti.

There was also one Anthony, whose mama could spell, and one Antnee, whose mama couldn't. It

While using generics, people describe themselves as who they want to be, not who they actually are. You need to get specific to bring out the edge cases.

Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted.

Being integrated means being able to accept all aspects of one's self. An integrated man is able to embrace everything that makes him unique: his power, his assertiveness, his courage, and his passion, as well as his imperfections, his mistakes, and his dark side.

When you reflect on the infinite number of happenstances that coalesced to produce you, then you understand how unique, how precious, how sacred you really are. Your task is to cultivate that precious, sacred nature and help it to flower.

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. —WALTER LIPPMANN I

Every house is built after a plan of its own: one looks in, another looks out; one is tall, another broad; and they are so irregular in height and outline that they seem as if they were all getting up out of bed at different hours in the morning, some not being yet quite up, while others are yawning and stretching themselves.

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

and all the strange rats we saw looked, to us, surprisingly weak and puny. So we were set apart from even our own kind.

Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly.

Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom.

ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others.

Those who are truly original and different do not need to make a great show of it.

Les gens jugent tout à l'apparence ; ce qui n'est pas visible ne compte pour rien. Ne vous laissez jamais noyer dans la foule ni sombrer dans l'oubli. Soyez à tout prix le point de mire, celui que l'on remarque. Faites-vous plus grand, plus chatoyant, plus mystérieux que la masse terne et morne, soyez l'aimant qui attire tous les regards.