Quotes About Uniqueness

People who are exactly like other people probably don't exist. But people who seem like most other people litter our lives, and we don't usually seek their company because they are boring. Readers don't read novels in order to experience the boredom they often experience in life. They want to meet interesting people, extraordinary people, preferably people different from anyone they've met before in or out of fiction.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

What I know is that billions of people have walked this earth, and billions more will. The vast majority are born without talent and with an ordinariness that is astonishing. Then there's a select few who are given a mighty gift, whose talent is breathtaking. And in between there's people like us, who can do something to a slightly impressive degree. We're not the largest group, but we are the most wretched, because we can recognize greatness, but we will never touch it.

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?

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

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness

It's uniquely tough, but also uniquely fabulous.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

You get the picture. The marvelous thing about the human ego is that each one is slightly different. Deep inside you, there's an enormously objectionable force yearning to leap forth and spew toxic goo all over the place. Let it flow!

For a new fount to be successful it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

je mehr sich einer begrenzt, um so mehr ist er andererseits dem Unendlichen nah; gerade solche scheinbar Weltabseitigen bauen in ihrer besonderen Materie sich termitenhaft eine merkwürdige und durchaus einmalige Abbreviatur der Welt.

He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550, 1560, 1570, 1580, the Montaigne of yesterday.

Él lo sabe todo y lo consigue todo. Él te trae el libro más singular del más olvidado de los anticuarios alemanes. Es el hombre más capaz en toda Viena y además auténtico, un ejemplar de una raza en extinción, un saurio antediluviano de los libros.

L'unicità diventa ogni giorno più preziosa in questo nostro mondo che irrimediabilmente va facendosi sempre più uniforme.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Really, there are only two kinds of people who are going to understand about hand-knit socks: those who wear them and know the singular joy of perfect socks, and the knitters who have the pleasure of giving that exquisite experience. Everybody else thinks you must be a special kind of crazy to spend so much time making something that you could buy for $1.99 at the store.

Like flowers of the field, we are each unique, yet all brought forth by the same Source.