Quotes About Uniqueness

I realized that the heart of religion was setting up an honest dialogue with the uniqueness of one's soul and finding a deeply personal relationship with God, the inner Voice, the inner Music that plays in you as it does in no one else.

I knew that there was a largeness in you. I knew you possessed a generosity of abilities that comes only rarely into the world.

It is frightening to be different," said Anna.

No one completes us.  No one is our missing piece, our other half.  We complete ourselves or fail to.   No one else could be successful in that role because each of us is utterly unique.  There isn't another "you" anywhere on this planet.  If you somehow feel incomplete, the answers aren't out there somewhere.  The answers are in the room.  You have them.  

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

It is intolerable to have one's own sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

We all have our own unique gifts. It is incumbent upon the larger society to discover them.

same mould as Ruth Blake! God-given

Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.

For this reason, almost without exception, champions are specialists whose styles emerge from profound awareness of their unique strengths, and who are exceedingly skilled at guiding the battle in that direction. With

No one here talks like me or gets my references or knows the songs I know. I don't look like any of them. Even my bond with Joya was based on not belonging here.

Be the best that you can be, because there isn't another one of you around.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

I can't understand why God made every tiny snowflake different and all these men the same.

Sólo hay algo en la naturaleza remotamente parecido a esa mirada, y son los ojos de los tiburones blancos. Miran sin ver, de una forma única y aterradora.

Sólo a partir de Darwin se ha comprendido que no somos la especie elegida, sino como dice Robert Foley, una especie única entre otras muchas especies únicas.

One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.

That is Mary: there are no suburbs to her personality: before you know it you are at her heart.

He opened the box and saw a tiny cake shaped like a bird's nest in three small round layers of tender, browned-butter vanilla cake with an apricot filling. A "nest" border of piped rum and mocha buttercream enclosed a clutch of pale blue marzipan eggs and a sugar-paste feather. The complicated yin and yang of rum and mocha, the "everybody loves" vanilla, Mr. Social white chocolate, tart and witty apricot, and artistic marzipan- all said "Gavin" to me.

There will always be someone out there demanding something different from you.

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.