Quotes About Uniqueness

What if I had always known that the reason I looked different and felt different was in fact because I was different? It would be easy to fantasize that this would have been better. But we can never know what lies at the heart of the path not taken.

The whole thing of what I've been trying," you said, "is that you're different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don't think about them, because of the way you are.

No soy diferente, en absoluto, no soy distinta a otra mota cualquiera. Soy una imperfección imperfecta, una ruina ruinosa, unos restos manchados y tan destrozados que soy incapaz de descubrir lo que era antes. No soy nada, nada de nada

I want you to love me in particular," Helena said. "I'm not the same as an American. I'm my own species and I want you to be picky about it, if that's the expression.

man walking on stilts among giants

Acting the moralist serves nothing. Each case is unique.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it, written as well as you, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

They were an odd pair- but odd pairs were what kept life interesting.

You're mad, bonkers, off your head! But I'll tell you a secret: all the best people are.

I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay.

The things that make me different are the things that make me me.

Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.

Thank God I'm very satisfied with the way God created me, and I wouldn't change a thing.

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

We all have souls of different ages

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that's a weird image.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.