Quotes About Uniqueness

If you're in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, focus on believing in yourself and share your uniqueness to the world.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. It's best to accept life as it really is and not as you imagined it to be." "Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

What's wrong with being out there, out there like a star shining in the night when that's the only way the star can be seen? You never tell a star: Hey Tone it down.

Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

King Solomon says in Proverbs that there is nothing new under the sun.

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There are those who are made different in the womb.

A bird who flies is special. You would never trap a bird who flies (218).

Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.

You can only be you, and it is not until you reclaim your unique self that you can be truly great.

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

But...if everyone was special, wouldn't that really mean that no one was special at all?

if everyone was special, wouldn't that really mean that no one was special at all?

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

But other people have universes with super-important dealios in them, too.

Some kids get called "bundles of joy" or "slices of heaven" or "dreams come true." We got "the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments." Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

But… if everyone was special, wouldn't that really mean that no one was special at all?

Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

I don't really compare myself to anybody. That would be very unhealthy.

It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.