Quotes About Uniqueness

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Do not take roads traveled by the public.

There is courage in not caring what others think about your uncommon action, when you find that the greatest show in the universe is the universe.

all of us naked as the day we were born, each of us a candle in the darkness, because while the moon is our soul sister, unlike her we are no one's reflection—we shine in dark places by the light of our own being.

We are no one's reflection— we shine in dark places by the light of our own being

The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?

It is no longer possible to be exotic.

God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us. —St. Augustine

miguelito] Qué seré grande yo cuando sea grande, no sé. Lo que sí sé es que no seré uno más del montón. Eso sé! [mafalda] Otro más que engrosa el montón de los que no quieren ser uno más del montón!

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

Henri Matisse once said, "It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

The fact is, those who are like everyone else arouse no hatred unless there is a reason. But when a resplendent inner self pierces the grossness that envelops it, some, quite irrationally, extend it heartfelt adoration; others, just as irrationally, try heart and soul to insult it.

They who from birth have had no other

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The interesting ones are like islands, he said: you don't bump into them on the street or at a party, you have to know where they are and go to them by arrangement.

I don't follow anybody. I just flip through whatever Instagram sends me. I like to keep my algorithm pure, so I only ever like pictures of art. It's a rabbit hole for me because I'm a total voyeur.

I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.