Quotes About Uniqueness

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

Unless we define happiness in a rather sad way, namely that it is to be like everyone else, which is what the autonomous ego could be resolved into - nobody, it must be said, knows what it is.

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

Always I'm trying to make something human but as if it hasn't been made by a human.

She always said that she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way.

She probably had the only 3-D CAD program in the world that used bat wing-beats as a unit of measurement. 

They call me Keychain," Neala said. "That's interesting," Little Angel replied. "On account of my teeth's crooked and they say I could open a beer bottle with my mouth, like a can opener." Little Angel stood there for a moment. He felt inexplicable love for these two waifs.

Un escritor es, más que nada, alguien que posee el don del asombro y sabe transmitirlo. El don de singularizar lo que ve. Porque las cosas esconden siempre algún secreto, un detalle, algo que las hace únicas y que el artista debe descubrir.

Ben Stone: [to Meredith] You have a freak flag. You just don't fly it.

Oh, Mom, what's 'normal' mean, anyway? 'Normal' is whatever we make it.

We know we are very special. Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?

We know we are very special," Davis writes in "Special": "Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?" (from James Wood's review of the FSG "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis")

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

What is it that remains essentially you?

Cool isn't for sale at the bondage store. You make it up yourself, pull it outta your asshole, your own unique brand that starts when you're born, and when you die, it's gone.

How can you be alone if you are everything? And yet, because you are everything, you are totally alone.

There is an abundant need in this world for your exact brand of beautiful.

Originality is merely an illusion.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

You're one funny enchilada

Parents who have more than one child are very aware that, while we certainly have an impact on our child's development, it has as much to do with them as with us. "I can't believe how different my kids are" should inform us that child development is an uneven process only partly tied to parenting (and no one knows exactly how much that "partly" is).

Our job is to produce and guide our children; not to reproduce ourselves. Nor should we want to. One of the absolute miracles of life is the profound uniqueness of each person.

When we protect our children from excessive control, outsized competition, and persistent academic pressure, and choose instead to commit to nurturing them with warmth, clear limits, firm consequences, and a delight in their potential and uniqueness, then our children are free to return to their essential task—the development of a sense of self, sufficiently robust to weather the inevitable ups and downs of a lifetime.

That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.