Quotes About Uniqueness

THE MYTH: Being a misfit is a defect you must correct. THE REALITY: Your nonconformity is your pathway to fulfillment.

You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You are here to initiate.

On the other hand, Andrea had decided last month, on the occasion of her twelfth birthday and for no discernible reason (at least, none that an adult could discern), that from then on her given name would be Fitzwinkle. And then

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Labour at your work until people cannot imagine what you have designed existing any other way.

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

Fingers: Weve all got them and we shouldnt be embarrassed about them.

God got me steppin' different, I'm not under an obligation to do something the same way the crowd is moving. -MillYentei

The difference between me and them, they constantly look up to each other; I look up to legends. -MillYentei

You can't mix your own shine with people who are already shining expecting your shine to be noticed by the world, in all reality you're just keeping them on top in the light.

Your reality is different from my reality, because your body is different, your filters are different, your experiences are different, your knowledge is different.

No one person can ever take credit for a moment in this cosmos.

My deha is different from yours. My hungers are different from yours. My assumptions are different from yours. My capabilities are different from yours. My experiences are diferent from yours. My expressions are different from yours.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

I can be a better me than anyone can; I am me. Good or bad. I am myself. I'm no carbon copy of no one else.

Find your place, and let the world gravitate to you. None of this mix-and-mingle business.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize. — Diane Arbus, Revelations (Random House, 2003)

sibling who doesn't fit in or follow the paths the rest of us take; who challenges and bewilders, upsets and dazzles us; who scares some of us away; but who still loves us, in his or her way.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

God's image has been imprinted uniquely on each of us. In God's infinite creativity there are no duplicates; you are the only you there has ever been or ever will be.

You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]

How does Jesus differ from other great persons and heroes? All heroes come from lowliness and want to be great, while Jesus comes from the heights and wants to be humble. All heroes are human beings and want to be like God,[523] while Christ is God and wants to be a human being. All heroes are born of the earth; Christ is born of God.[524] [—] John 3:6; Acts 4:12