Quotes About Uniqueness

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

She is the only person I know who actually likes exams.

Do I mind? No! Because that's the way he is. He's a human being! Nose hair and all!

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Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school.

It's a bit weird, constantly being compared to someone you've never met.

Wear those stripy legs with pride.

Hay dos momentos importantes en la vida: cuando descubres que no eres como los demás y cuando descubres que no eres tan distinto como creías.

She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.

You have to be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

Being able to use the word "geek" has helped me a lot to define myself, but not as a mold for me to fit myself into, as a template to help accentuate my differences.

There are no exact duplicates in nature. Each human is unique. When we seek to be like the next person, we lose autonomy. Failure often is the result of following the crowd. If the character of the person we are following lacks strength, honesty, and courage, that person's weaknesses can become ours. Conversely, following someone who exhibits those attributes reinforces one's own resolve and character.

Are you worried you're not like everyone else? Your worries will only worsen when you find that the path to conformity is different for each person.

I am America," Clay will proudly declare. "I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. —Vincent van Gogh

Have you ever considered that you are a valuable human being, not despite your differences but because of them?