Quotes About Uniqueness

She needed a world without so many standards and restrictions and expectations–one more friendly to a girl who thought differently from other people.

We're all dangerous in our own way, I guess.

She has a little bit of both of us in her, and a little something magical that nobody can take credit for, which I now know is the case with all children, no matter how they come into this world.

Many ideas and habits we thought we had because we were good or bad, smart or dumb, crazy or sane—or because our parents were—are simply the result of subtle distinctions between brains. If my brain works differently from your brain, then some things that are easy for me may be hard for you and vice versa without either of us being stupid, lazy, or crazy.

Este mesmo segundo desapareceu para sempre, perdeu-se na massa anónima do irrevogável. nunca mais regressará. Sofro e não sofro com isso. Tudo é único - e insignificante.

STAY WEIRD, DON'T LET OTHERS DEFINE YOU"

A funny thing happens when more than one knitter gathers in a public place. A solo knitter, presuming she is a woman, quickly fades into the backdrop like a potted palm or a quietly nursing mother. ... A single knitter is shorthand for "nothing to see here, move on." But when knitters gather, we become incongruously conspicuous. We are a species that other people aren't used to seeing in flocks, like a cluster of Corgis, a dozen Elvis impersonators waiting for the elevator.

To think is to differ.

I don't want beauty, I want identity.

I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun.

In my core I have the strange impression that I don't belong to the human species

Porque es cruel saber que la vida es única y que no tenemos como garantía más que la fe en tinieblas; porque es demasiado cruel, respondo con la pureza de una alegría indomable. [...] El amor impersonal, el amor it, es alegría, incluso el amor que no sale bien, incluso el amor que termina.

E ninguém é eu. E ninguém é você. Esta é a solidão.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

Por qué tanta gente cree que su vida es única y yo creo que la mía es igual a la de cualquiera?

Siempre es más sencillo parecerse a los demás.

And still you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description. I

A particular bear...sees a particular this

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures.

Not everybody is born with perfect qualities. And not everyone will grow up with extraordinary achievements. Time is generous to those who want to succeed and conquer. Just be natural, because you yourself is unique in your own right.

Some people are different, and so are the rest of us.