Quotes About Uniqueness

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. It

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters: and his circumstances or his character may be uncustomary.

average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit.

Real books, unlike schoolbooks, can't be standardized. They are eccentric; no book fits everyone.

Institutional goals, however sane and well-intentioned, are unable to harmonize deeply with the uniqueness of individual human goals.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

The American playwright and painter Lorraine Hansberry said, "The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

It was odd, she thought that she had seen all the male crew members naked, but had to come to Themis to see Gaby. What a strange creature she was with no hair.

Our speech is not as yours, nor our pipes so deep.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

A horse is a horse,it ain´t make a difference what color it is

Don't Compare yourself to others

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

You're perfect just the way you are

She was healthy & thriving, like a weed: a weed with no interest in trying to become, say, a proper flower.

Her name was Flower, oddly imprecise for one so much herself, as though her parents had wrestled with names like Daisy, Violet, and Rose, lost their way amid so many choices, and settled for this generic solution.

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from on another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hate. That'll show them.

If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you.

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.